Marble Roller Coaster Pipe Insulation

How to build a marble roller coaster.

Marble roller coaster pipe insulation.

Imagine you are a roller coaster engineer and must design a new roller coaster. The foaming can be taped on the wall using masking tape and moved around to make a roller coaster. Marble roller coasters are fun and easy to build. Design and build a roller coaster for marbles to travel on.

This project has a few things that help this work. There will be extra points for loops and hills. We even had a little roller coaster to use with photo gates. You ll build a roller coaster track for marbles using foam pipe insulation and masking tape and see how much of an initial drop is required to get the marble to loop the loop it s a great way to learn about how stored energy potential energy is converted into the energy of motion kinetic energy.

The goal of this activity is to be resourceful. Tape the loop to the floor to hold it in place. Change the height of the first hill. Curl one end of a piece of pipe insulation into a loop roughly 1 foot in diameter.

It was my second year teaching physics. Cut the foam tubing in half and you have a track for a marble to roll down. During the unit on energy the book we were using frequently used roller coasters in their problems. I thought we could do better.

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. 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. You can build a roller coaster from the foam tubes that are often used for pipe insulation. The pipe insulation roller coaster project is one of the most enjoyable projects i ve ever used in class.

So i wanted to know how much pipe insulation should i give to each team and what materials should be given to give support to the rollercoaster.