Bobsled riders' safety depends on skill ... and physics! Learners use a simulation to understand the physics behind the sport. They manipulate the speed, mass, and/or turn radius of the sled and watch the effects on the centripetal force. 

Concepts

centripetal acceleration, centripetal force, newton's laws of motion

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the Assign to Class feature of the website to assign the lesson to pupils and monitor their progress
• Create similar problems for independent practice

Classroom Considerations

• Must create a free CK-12 account to access the lesson

Pros

• Visual representation and graphs add clarity to the concept
• Provides the option to show the force diagrams throughout the simulation

Cons

• None