Challenge For A Marble Roller Coaster Project

Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate.

Challenge for a marble roller coaster project.

Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out. Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design challenge. Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. In roller coaster construction this is called track banking this is a good opportunity to explain the negative effects of momentum.

This is a really fun project even if you don t like going on roller coasters yourself. A marble travelling forward will continue moving in that direction because of it s momentum. The criteria are in italics the constraints are in bold a. Layers of learning has hands on experiments in every unit of this family friendly curriculum.

Your marble must not fall off until it gets to the end of the track. Build a roller coaster with 2 hills and one loop. Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. Learn more about layers of learning.

You ll build a roller coaster track for marbles using foam pipe insulation and masking tape and see how much of an initial drop is required to get the marble to loop the loop. Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time. Objects on earth always follow the same physical rules. If a curved track is not banked the marble may fly off of the edge of the track.