Mechanics:
Energy Track

PIRA Class: 1M40.17

Purpose:
To demonstrate conservation of energy on a track with varying steepness

Description:
A ball rolls along a ramp that is steeper on the left side and shallower on the right side, however both sides rise to the same height. The ball should reach the same height it is released from when reaches the other side of the ramp.

NOTE: The demonstration works best when the ball is released on the shallower side of the ramp. When the ball comes back down from the steep side there is some wobble at the lowest point causing the ball to lose kinetic energy.

Equipment:
Energy track and ball

Location:
Shelf 145 (the ball may be with the loop-the-loop track on the same shelf), shelf 132