Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out.
Marble roller coaster build.
When you raise the marble you are working against the force of gravity giving the marble potential energy.
Allow 2 minutes near end of class for students to try each others coasters.
The way you design the coaster is up to you so get creative and challenge yourself to make your ride as fun fast and safe as possible.
Marble roller coasters are fun and easy to build.
In an isolated system such as the roller coaster the total energy remains constant.
Gravity also make this work.
The foam tubing roller.
Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate.
Arrange plenty of space in your room cleanup.
Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy.
You can build your own mini marble roller coaster using simple materials like popsicle sticks aluminum foil and a styrofoam base.
Identify the two parts.
The roller coaster is a great demonstration of the law of conservation of energy.
This project has a few things that help this work.
One of them is one of newton s laws of motion that says that an object in motion will stay in motion and an object in rest will stay in rest.