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Title Energy, Forces, and Motion basics
Description This uses a Half-pipe context to relate what students see in the winter games to skate boarding.
Subject Physics
Level High School, Middle School
Type Lab
Answers Included No
Language English
Keywords energy, forces, motion
Simulation(s) Energy Skate Park

Author(s) Kristi Goodwin
Contact Email kristi.goodwin@hallco.org
School / Organization C.W. Davis Middle School
Date submitted 2/17/10
Date updated 2/21/10

Comments

Very good simulation of PE and KE. Thanks. Ekundayo Akinduro   3/31/12

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