Students use high speed video to determine whether a roller coaster is an example of a system in which mechanical energy is conserved. The activity is intended to give students experience extracting data from video clips, and using physics concepts and reasoning to make conclusions about the situation.

Concepts

mechanical energy

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Additional Tags

coaster, measuring velocity, law of conservation of energy

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)