Marble Roller Coaster Project

You ll build a roller coaster track for marbles using foam pipe insulation and masking tape and see how much of an initial drop is required to get the marble to loop the loop.
Marble roller coaster project. Abstract this is a really fun project even if you don t like going on roller coasters yourself. Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. This project has a few things that help this work. Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate.
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. We re doing the roller coasters. Marble roller coasters are fun and easy to build. Ideal for rapid redesigning and exploring the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy and momentum.
The roller coaster is a great demonstration of the law of conservation of energy. This project reaches a wide span of grade ranges from k 12. Get the lesson plan and project sheet for this activity step 1. Create the longest track possible without letting the marble fall off.
Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out. The marble roller coaster is an open ended challenge. Gravity also make this work. I d like to note that the concept for this project is not my own but the building and teaching techniques are.