Here is a pic of me and my family when we went to Lake Tahoe. I am on the far right with the snowboard. (Sorry the picture is really blurry!) When we were on the mountain, we were actually experiencing physics. At the top, before we started going down, we had potential energy, which would equal mass times gravity times the height of our elevation to the lodge. This stored energy would be converted into kinetic energy as we started to move and this kinetic energy can be calculated as 1/2mass times velocity squared. At any given moment, because of the conservation of energy, our total energy (kinetic + potential) would always be the same (KE1 + PE1 = KE2 + PE2). So through the law of conservation of energy, the potential energy at the top of the mountain (no kinetic energy because we have zero velocity) should equal the kinetic energy (no potential energy because height is zero) I would posses at the bottom if I went straight down the slopes.
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Nice! Snowboarding is super fun and I love the snow :D Cool application of physics
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