Energy Skate Park PhET Lab In this lab you will use the Energy Skate Park Lab to explore energy transformations and determine how the position of a skater affects his speed and potential and kinetic energies. https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/energy-skate-park/latest/energy-skate-park_all.html 3) The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, Therefore, energy can only be transformed. Use this statement to answer the questions that follow. a) What type(s) of energy did the skater have at the skater's highest point? b) What type(s) of energy did the skater have at his lowest point? c) What type of energy transformation did you see between the highest and lowest point in the motion of the skater? Part 2 - Relating Speed to Potential and Kinetic Energy 4) Label on the track where you predict the skater will be a) at his maximum speed b) stopped c) going his average speed d) going slow e) going fast 5) On the graph to the right label where you predict the Energy vs, Position skater is a) at his maximum speed b) stopped c) going his average speed d) going slow e) going fast 10 31 12 19 6) Test your ideas using the Double Well Roller Coaster track. a) Make any modifications to your answers in RED on the images for Questions 4 and 5. b) If one of your friends asked you for help in making sense of the type of graph in Question 4. How would you explain what it is showing? *Consider: What is on each axis? What types of energy are being graphed? c) Using the graph in Question 5, what can you say about the total energy of the skater