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What happens to gravitational potential energy as a roller coaster moves down hill?
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∙ 11y ago
Yes. As the car goes down the hill, the potential energy decreases and the kinetic energy increases. However, not all of the potential energy becomes kinetic energy. Some of it is lost to heat and sound energy.
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∙ 13y ago
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One situation in which gravitational potential energy is useful?
A roller coaster
Situation in which gravitational potential energy might be useful?
A roller coaster
When does the string of a car on a roller coaster store its maximum gravitational potential energy?
Any object has maximum gravitational potential energy when it is at its highest position.
What are 5 energy conversions in a roller coaster?
I only know of two: 1)potential energy to kinetic energy 2)potential energy to gravitational potential energy
Where does a roller coaster have the least kinetic energy?
At the tallest point on the track. Potential energy is given by U(Which is potential energy) = mass times height time gravitational constant. You can't change the gravitational constant, or the mass of the roller coaster car. So you have to change the height. PE=mgh so more the height and the mass the more PE
How do gravity and potential energy work together to give you a great ride on a roller coaster?
the gravitational potential energy of a roller coaster is equal to two things. Not only is it equal to the gravitational potential energy, it is also equal to the kinetic energy at the lowest point of the coaster. the gravitational potential energy can be calculated as: m*g*h where m is mass (kilograms), g is gravity (9.8 m/s^2), and h is height (metres).d the kinetic energy at the bottom of the coaster can be calculated as (m*v^2)/2 where m is mass (kilograms), v is velocity (metres/second).
Are there examples of potential energy?
Gravitational Potential Energy, Elastic Potential Energy, Chemical Potential Energy, Electrical Potential Energy, Nuclear Potential Energy. If you want more info, check out this wikipedia page that I linked.
3 What type of energy is gained as the roller coaster car goes up to the top of the first hill?
It is gravitational potential energy.
Why do roller coasters end lower than where they start?
Since the top of the first hill is the highest point on the track, it's also the point at which the roller coaster's gravitational potential energy is greatest. As the roller coaster passes over the top of the first hill, its total energy is greatest. Most of that total energy is gravitational potential energy but a small amount is kinetic energy, the energy of motion. From that point on, the roller coaster does two things with its energy. First, it begins to transform that energy from one form to another--from gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy and from kinetic energy to gravitational potential energy, back and forth. Second, it begins to transfer some of its energy to its environment, mostly in the form of heat and sound. Each time the roller coaster goes downhill, its gravitational potential energy decreases and its kinetic energy increases. Each time the roller coaster goes uphill, its kinetic energy decreases and its gravitational potential energy increases. But each transfer of energy isn't complete because some of the energy is lost to heat and sound. Because of this lost energy, the roller coaster can't return to its original height after coasting downhill. That's why each successive hill must be lower than the previous hill. Eventually the roller coaster has lost so much of its original total energy that the ride must end. With so little total energy left, the roller coaster can't have much gravitational potential energy and must be much lower than the top of the first hill.
Use gravitational potential energy in a sentence?
A roller coaster on the top of the ride Book on top of bookshelf Apple on top of table
What happens when you unscramble the word 'tenpliato'?
it means potential (as in my case, Gravitational Potential energy)
The energy of position such as a rock on a hill is what energy?
Gravitational energy Potential energy
