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[Adiel Fernandez] Alright so this is Adiel Fernandez with Sci Code department with Sci
Place center here at The New York Hall of Science and we're testing our latest playground
intervention which is a slide based exhibit. What we did was we mounted a couple sensors
on to the side of the slide and that will help us determine the speed of somebody that
goes down the slide and with that speed information we can get how much energy they have. Now
because we know how much potential energy the student has in the beginning, we can tell
how fast they were going and how much kinetic energy at the end and any discrepancy between
top to the bottom is energy that was lost to friction. Using this information students
can play a game where they try to get a character to land on a target by play around with how
much kinetic energy and how much energy is hidden. One of you guys go first but you guys
will be taking turns. So the goal is to basically go down the slide and to try and get your
character to land on this target. So he'll have two kind of things to him. This one is
kinetic energy and this one is how much energy he loses to friction.
[Man] oh! oh! [Adiel] After we gave the initial instructions,
watching the screening, going through the registration process of the actual exhibit,
students were pretty good at watching for feed back and going through the right steps
in order to get their data collected on the screen.