7. Use conservation of energy to determine how far the center of the train could go up the vertical section of the track if it didn’t lose any energy to friction. (Use the velocity of the train from #3.) 8. The train is 13 meters long. According to your energy conservation calculation for the height of the center of the train, determine how high the of the train would reach. bottom 9. Using the results of your calculations from question 5, determine how much higher point F is than point A. 10. How does the height the bottom of the train reaches (as predicted by energy conservation) compare to the height you calculated in question 9? Since the ride lose energy due to friction, how is the ride does able to reach the height you measured? Determine the maximum height you reached above the starting height using your altitude graph. b. Find the maximum height the of the train reached by taking into account where you sat in the bottom 13-meter long train. (No modification needed if you were sitting in the last car. If you were sitting in the front car, you would subtract 13 meters.) c. How does the height for the bottom of the train calculated from the altimeter data compare to the height calculated from the triangulated heights in question 9? QUANTITATIVE QUESTIONS (continued) A mystery to solve: Given the unique geometry of Mr. Freeze, the altitude graphs should be quite symmetrical. However, our data more typically looks like the graph below:
7. Use conservation of energy to determine how far the center of the train could go up the vertical section of the track if it didn’t lose any energy to friction. (Use the velocity of the train from #3.) 8. The train is 13 meters long. According to your energy conservation calculation for the height of the center of the train, determine how high the bottom of the train would reach. 9. Using the results of your calculations from question 5, determine how much higher point F is than point A. 10. How does the height the bottom of the train reaches (as predicted by energy conservation) compare to the height you calculated in question 9? Since the ride does lose energy due to friction, how is the ride able to reach the height you measured? Determine the maximum height you reached above the starting height using your altitude graph. b. Find the maximum height the bottom of the train reached by taking into account where you sat in the 13-meter long train. (No modification needed if you were sitting in the last car. If you were sitting in the front car, you would subtract 13 meters.) c. How does the height for the bottom of the train calculated from the altimeter data compare to the height calculated from the triangulated heights in question 9? QUANTITATIVE QUESTIONS (continued) A mystery to solve: Given the unique geometry of Mr. Freeze, the altitude graphs should be quite symmetrical. However, our data more typically looks like the graph below:
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