Math In Creating A Marble Roller Coaster

You ll need two lengths of pipe each about 1 8 meters long some tape a calculator a stopwatch and measuring.

Math in creating a marble roller coaster.

Your marble must land in the cup at the end of the run. Just like the cars on a real roller coaster the marble has potential energy when it is at the top of the hill. The roller coaster starts with an initial drop usually a very high hill so the coaster gains enough speed. Each group received one six foot piece of tubing and one marble.

To keep roller coasters on the track make sure to do the math. You ll be creating a homemade marble run and exploring what happens to the marble as you make changes to the track. Let s begin by measuring the speed your marble can attain. Your marble must not fall off until it gets to the end of the track.

Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. This activity gives students hands on experience with several mathematical and physical concepts in the development of a safe roller coaster. Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out. I used this marble roller coaster activity to kick off our discussion of kinetic and potential energy in physical science.

Rolling downhill later in this activity you will make roller coasters for marbles out of foam pipe insu lation. It s similar to how a roller coaster works this activity correlates with next generation science standards kindergarten. Ngss k ps2 2 follow our science for kids pinterest board. Using only these materials and tape each group had to create a roller coaster that included one loop.

Background roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate. You may tape your run to furniture. The energy becomes kinetic energy when the marble rolls down the hill. The mathematics of.

Build a roller coaster with 2 hills and one loop.