Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Energy: Forms, Transformation, Transfer, and Conservation ~ Misconception NGM042

In a situation involving two frictionless slides of the same height, the speed of an object released from the top will be greater at the bottom for the slide that has a steeper initial slope (Singh & Rosengrant, 2001, 2003).

Items that test for misconception NGM042 in this project (ASPECt) and key idea ()
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NG069005	In a situation involving two slides, and assuming no energy transfer between the slides and the students sliding on them or between the students and the air around them, two students of the same mass sliding down differently shaped slides will have the same speed at the bottom of the slides because the only source of motion energy is the change in gravitational potential energy, and both students experience the same change in gravitational potential energy.	51%