Physics Program
This program allows students to understand and explain motion, electric circuits, energy conservation, and energy transfer. They will apply their knowledge to practical experiences, such as feeling free-fall sensations and experiencing different states of energy. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to develop scientific ideas, construct evidence-based arguments, and communicate using scientific language and representations.
About the Program
This program allows students to understand and explain motion, electric circuits, energy conservation, and energy transfer. They will apply their knowledge to practical experiences, such as feeling free-fall sensations and experiencing different states of energy. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to develop scientific ideas, construct evidence-based arguments, and communicate using scientific language and representations.
Further Infomation
TIME:
Arrival: 10.00am
Departure: 3.00pm (program runs between
10.30am – 2.30pm)
SEASON AVAILABILITY:
May – August
Objectives
• During the program, students will give both qualitative and quantitative explanations of the relationships between distance, speed, acceleration, mass, and force to predict and explain motion. They will use the concepts of voltage and current to explain the operation of electric circuits.
• They will also be able to explain the concept of energy conservation and modelenergy transfer from kinetic to potential and back
again, and transformation within systems.
• Students will apply the knowledge gained from the theory component to the practical component of the session whilst experiencing the rides firsthand. Students will feel free-fall sensation, transfer of energy states,
potential to kinetic and back again, randomised banking turns, single continuous banking corning, differences in speeds and side-to-side motion.
• Students will also be given the opportunity to develop and communicate
scientific ideas, including constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions, and representations.