How does a roller coaster convert potential energy to kinetic energy and then back to potential energy again and again?

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Jeffrey Reese

Physics

16 October, 03:52

How does a roller coaster convert potential energy to kinetic energy and then back to potential energy again and again?

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Wilson Carpenter · Answer 1

When the coaster ascends one of the smaller hills that follows the initial lift hill, its kinetic energy changes back to potential energy. In this way, the course of the track is constantly converting energy from kinetic to potential and back again.