Summary of Digital Lab: Energy & Air Resistance
Summary of Digital Lab: Energy & Air Resistance
Summary
The goal of the Energy & Air Resistance virtual lab is to allow students the opportunity to investigate into the factors that impact potential and kinetic energy. Students conduct their investigation into how height, mass, and volume can change potential, kinetic, and mechanical energy.
Driving Questions
- Determine how the height of the drop affects the potential energy before the ball is dropped.
- Determine how the mass of the ball affects the mechanical energy as the ball hits the ground.
- Determine how the volume of the ball affects the thermal energy of the system.
- Determine how the volume of the ball affects the kinetic energy as the ball hits the ground.
NGSS Standards