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Re: Half-pipe snowboarding



PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu writes:
In the Olympic snowboarding event the snowboarder goes down one side of
the
half-pipe and then rises as high as 10 feet above the other side.

If we did this with a bowling ball on a hard surface we would not expect
the
additional potential energy unless we really pushed ot give it an
increased
initial velocity as well as the gravitational PE that it has.

The athletes did not appear to have much forward speed going into this
move.
What do they do to gain the extra height?

The half pipe is also pointing down hill. I assume that the combination
of the two produces the extra height.




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