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:
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/energy-skate-park
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 and put him anywhere on the ramp at any time.
1.What does the size of the pie represent? How many ways can you find to make the pie bigger or smaller? What rules does it seem to follow?
Explanation / Answer
The size of pie chart represents ENERGY.
There are two ways to make the pie bigger or smaller.
one way is if you place the skater at the extreme left edge of ramp then the skater goes to extreme right edge with bigger pie. Where as if the skater makes oscillations near the center ,then the pie is smaller.
second way : If the mass of the skater is more ,pie is bigger and if the mass of skater is less , pie is smaller.