Learning Goals
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- Explain the Conservation of Mechanical Energy using kinetic, gravitational potential, and thermal energy.
- Describe how changing the mass, friction, or gravity affects the skater's energy.
- Predict position or estimate speed from energy bar graph or pie chart.
- Calculate speed or height at one position from information about a different position.
- Describe what happens to the energy in the system when the reference height changes.
- Design a skate park using the concepts of mechanical energy and energy conservation.