Conservation of Energy Script by: Dylan Ramirez and Julia Calderon Julia: Hello my name is Julia Dylan: My name

is Dylan, and for our topic we studied the conservation of energy Julia: Conservation of energy explains how energy is always constant, and how energy is never created or destroyed. Dylan: Our bowling ball pendulum can help explain conservation of energy. Julia: If you would please stand here, now put the bowling ball to your nose. You have now given the bowling ball its maximum potential energy or the pendulum. Dylan: Now let the bowling ball go. The bowling ball is now going to swing to the other side and come back. If you do not move you will notice the bowling ball will not crash into your face. Julia: As the bowling ball reaches the lowest point to the ground, it reaches its maximum amount of kinetic energy. Notice how it barely touches your nose/ does not come up as close as before. This is because the energy is constant, the height of the ball when it started if how high the ball went on the opposite end. Dylan: If the ball didnt tap your nose it is because of outside forces interfering with the amount of energy the ball contains, forces such as wind or friction of the rope.

Julia: But a pendulum is not the only example of conservation of energy. Roller coasters are a great example, this is how conservation of energy ties into our project. Dylan: If you look up towards the stairs you can see our roller coaster, the top of the roller coaster is where all the potential energy is held. Julia: Once the car is released the bottom of the drop has the greatest amount of kinetic energy. not only because its moving but because its the lowest part of the ground. Dylan: the closer the car is to the floor the greater the kinetic energy is, but the potential energy is at its lowest. Vise versa the higher off the floor the cart is the greater the potential energy and kinetic energy is at its lowest. Julia: But the drop is not the only part of the roller coaster where the energy transforms, the loops in the roller coaster is another area where energy transforms. Dylan: We can find the amount of kinetic, potential, and total energy just by using the following formulas. Julia:KE=1/2mvsquared is used to find the kinetic energy, and PE=mgh, and to find the total amount of energy you use both of the equations combined like so; TEa=mgh=TEb=1/2mvsquared. Julia: (solve and explain accordingly with )

Dylan: (solve and explain accordingly) Julia: So once we get our final answer we measure it in Joules (J). Joules are used to measure total energy, potential energy, and kinetic energy. Dylan: Any questions? Julia: Thank you for stopping by our demo.