To begin your activity, open this tracker experiment: Snowboard Jump Energy. Watch the movie by clicking on the play button. (The other video controls allow you to “rewind” the video or step forward or backward one frame at a time.) Observe the video and answer the following questions.

Part A
What can you say about the snowboarder’s kinetic energy as he moves?

Part B
Similarly, what can you say about the potential energy of the snowboarder?

Part C
Based on your observations, what can you say about your prediction in Parts A and B above concerning the potential and kinetic energy?