Marble Roller Coaster Pipe Insulation

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Marble roller coaster pipe insulation.

You can build a roller coaster from the foam tubes that are often used for pipe insulation. The goal of this activity is to be resourceful. Curl one end of a piece of pipe insulation into a loop roughly 1 foot in diameter. It was my second year teaching physics.

Marble roller coasters are fun and easy to build. One of them is one of newton s laws of motion that says that an object in motion will stay in motion and an object in rest will stay in rest. There will be extra points for loops and hills. Imagine you are a roller coaster engineer and must design a new roller coaster.

How to build a marble roller coaster. During the unit on energy the book we were using frequently used roller coasters in their problems. The pipe insulation roller coaster project is one of the most enjoyable projects i ve ever used in class. Make sure tape is not blocking the inside of the channel it s ok to tape have tape on the inside just make sure it is pressed flat and will not block the marble.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. The foaming can be taped on the wall using masking tape and moved around to make a roller coaster. Tape the loop to the floor to hold it in place. Foam pipe insulation 1 5 inches in diameter at least 6 feet in length or more if you would like to eventually add more features to your roller coaster at least one glass marble or other.

There will be different teams and each team will have to make a roller coaster the team whose marble takes the most time to reach the ground would win. This project has a few things that help this work. Change the height of the first hill. Design and build a roller coaster for marbles to travel on.

Cut the foam tubing in half and you have a track for a marble to roll down.