Work & Energy
Try this: Double the skater's mass. Does the speed at the bottom change?
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About this simulation
Send a skater down a track and watch kinetic and potential energy trade back and forth.
Taught in Work & Energy
- kinetic energy
- potential energy
- work
- conservation
How this runs
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