Instructions: Get your laptop out and go onto the internet. Go to this web page:
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Question
Instructions: Get your laptop out and go onto the internet. Go to this web page: http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Energy_Skate_Park or, go to Google and search for: phet skate park. Click on the Run Now! Button.
1. Click on Show Pie Chart and with Thermal
2. Click on Potential Energy Reference
3. Find the box that says Location. Click on Earth. 4. The program should be running. You can click on Pause or simply drag the skater
A.. What general rule about the hills do you have to follow to get the skater to go all the way from one side of your track to the other? What can affect whether it works or not?
Explanation / Answer
Since the hills have downward slope , the person ulitezes his potential energy at top and converts into kinetic energy and has maximum kinetic energy at the botton of the slope. This kinetic energy makes the person to go on the other side and reache the hill spot again,
The thing which is working is law of conservation of energy, Law of conservation of energy always work.