PhET Simulation: Energy Skate Park

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This interactive simulation allows students to explore energy concepts by studying the motion of a skateboarder. The user can design ramps, jumps, and arbitrarily shaped tracks and observe the subsequent motion. The mass of the skateboarder, gravitational constant, and friction of the track can all be modified. A measuring tape is available for making measurements of height and distance. The relationships between kinetic, potential, thermal, and total energy are illustrated by simultaneous graphs of energy vs. time and energy vs. position.

Example lesson plans and clicker questions developed specifically for Energy Skate Park are also available.

This item is part of a larger collection of interactive simulations developed by the Physics Education Technology project (PhET).

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5.0 of Java Applet Plug-in.

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/energy-skate-park

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Work and Energy	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Middle School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Interactive Simulation

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Additional information is available.
Rights Holder:: University of Colorado at Boulder
Keywords:: conservation of energy, friction, kinetic energy, mechanical energy, potential energy, work
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created October 3, 2006 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: June 3, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: March 3, 2006
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