Algebra, Reality, & the Rollercoaster

Graphs to Tracks and Vice-Versa

            This assignment uses an interactive computer program to learn more about position, velocity, an acceleration graphs.  In Part I you are given all three graphs and are expected to make a ball and track system using the computer mouse.  In Part II you are given a ball and track system and are expected to draw all three motion graphs describing the motion.  The tutorial for Part II is very helpful.

 

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Part I:  There are eight examples.  They increase in difficulty from 1 to 8.  Make sketches of the ball and track system that you create.  Include the heights of the supports, the initial velocity and initial positions of the ball.

 

         Part II: There are eight examples.  They increase in difficulty from 1 to 8.  Make sketches of all three motion graphs that you create for each example.