RollerCoaster

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RollerCoaster
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Big Picture

• Use the Internet for research
• Use software to design and model simulations
• Advertise a Rollercoaster Ride
• Explain the Physics of the rollercoaster
• Develop a business model for a rollercoaster and
  theme park
• Share your ideas about software with others

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Connect

• How to search Internet effectively
• Rollercoaster facts and figures
• How to distinguish fact and opinion

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What you will learn

• Some of the Physics that controls Rollercoasters
• How a model combined with graphs can be used to
  test hypotheses

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Activity 1

• Rollercoaster Designer are you up to the job?
• Write 4 Bullet points and a drawing explaining
  how a RollerCoaster works. You must explain using
  Scientific terms.
• Potential Energy
• Kinetic Energy
• Energy losses
• Hills, Loops

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Activity 2

• Discussion Summary of learning so far

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Activity 3

• Rollercoaster Designer The Physics
• An explanation of the Physics ideas and key
  features
• Drop speed
• Going round in circles

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Activity 4

• Investigating a simple rollercoaster model using
  a spreadsheet.
• Do you know how to test an hypotheses graphically?

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Hypothesis testing
Tall people have a higher IQ?
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Hypothesis testing

• IQ is directly proportional to height

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Hypothesis testing

• IQ depends on shoe size?

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What have you learned

• Some of the Physics that controls Rollercoasters
• How a model combined with graphs can be used to
  test hypotheses

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How have you learned

• Doing
• Listening
• Watching
• Discussing
• By example
• Thinking
• Writing down