Virtual Lab Report

Conservation of Energy: Improve the Labster

Roller Coaster

This lab report is for you to reflect on what you completed and learned in this
simulation, and to practice your written scientific communication skills.

Sections

1. Describe the overall objective and make a hypothesis

2. Introduce relevant background knowledge on this topic
3. Summarize the steps taken in the simulation
4. Explain any obtained results
5. Discuss the conclusions and implications

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 1. Describe the overall objective and make a hypothesis.
What is the overall purpose of the experiments or activities? Make a hypothesis if applicable.

Hint: The purpose is often stated in the welcome message of the simulation.

In this simulation, you will be responsible for improving a roller coaster ride by learning and
applying the principles of conservation of energy. You will calculate and manipulate potential,
kinetic, and mechanical energy to make the roller coaster go 100 km/h.
Objective
● Applying the principles of conservation of energy
● Calculate the potential, kinetic, and mechanical energy
● manipulate the potential, kinetic, mechanical energy
● applying what learned in the simulation to make the roller coaster go 100 km/h

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 2. Introduce relevant background knowledge on this topic.
What have you learned in class or researched on your own that would help prepare for this
simulation?

Hint: You can review the “THEORY” section in the simulation or at https://theory.labster.com/
if you need help.

Before entering a simulation like this, everyone must have a basic understanding of the
topic, in this case, a common type of energy, to understand what is being discussed or
experimented on; in this experiment, students learned what kinetic, mechanical, and
potential energy are and how important they are in our surroundings. It also taught us that
various types of energy can be conserved. Without knowledge of these forms of energy, it
will be difficult to solve these types of challenges.

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 3. Summarize the steps taken in the simulation.
Explain each step you completed including the equipment and techniques you used.

Hint: You can use the “MISSION” tab in the LabPad as inspiration.

The Mission tab shows the completed tasks and progress, as well as the tools and
methods employed. Those are the steps users must perform in order to accomplish the
simulation, as indicated on the mission tab's list. Improve the Labster Roller Coaster, the
preceding experiment is a great illustration of this. The next chapter covers the ticket
booth, as well as the energy units ME, PE, and KE. It also demonstrates how to experiment
with potential and kinetic energy, with the example of increasing the speed of a roller
coaster. Also, the Design Lab's location is shown in the first box of the mission tab's
checklist. The fifth box contains the mechanical energy of a roller coaster as well as the
introduction of the isolated system. Users must have resolved all concerns with a roller
coaster before reviewing and adjusting the current track, which is the last thing on the
checklist before launching the roller coaster.

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 4. Describe any obtained results.
Explain any obtained results. Were these results expected or unexpected?

Hint: You can use the “MEDIA” tab in the Lab Pad to find relevant images from the simulation.
You can also take screenshots while you are playing the simulation.

In this experiment, we learn that:

- The work done on the ride has the same amount of work that had been done
between potential and kinetic energy even though the amount of Potential energy
dissipated at the end of the ride.

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- Even though potential energy disappears at the end of the ride, it only transforms
from potential to kinetic energy.

- Mechanical energy can be found by the sum of both potential and kinetic energy on
the ride.

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 5. Discuss the conclusions and implications.
How do your results relate back to the original purpose and your hypothesis? Were there any
systematic sources of error that could have affected the results? What did you learn? What is
the importance of these findings and how can you apply them to other real-world situations?

As a result of all the information we have acquired, we have come to the conclusion. on
the basis of our hypothesis you’ll be in charge of researching and implementing energy
conservation ways to improve a roller coaster in this simulation. To make a roller coaster
run 100 km/h, you must apply the laws of conservation of energy, calculate potential,
kinetic, and mechanical energy, control potential, and apply what you learned in the
simulation. We didn’t get any errors as a finding for the overall result of our paper. As a
whole, we’ve learned the characteristics of how a roller coaster actually works -
particularly how it is engineered detailedly. The significance of these findings was important
as understanding how a proper mechanical vehicle works. Also, knowing how the same
energy for potential and kinetic energy works. We can apply this in other real-life situations
for calculating such important day-to-day basis vehicles like aircraft.

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