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Why doesn't the skateboarder roll as high each time she goes up the ramp

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Answer:

The skater has mechanical/gravitational potential energy at the two meter mark. The skater gets to two meters high on the other end of the ramp. In terms of the conservation of energy, the skater will never go higher than two meter on the other end of the the ramp because energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

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Answer:

the reason it wont go higher is because some of the energy converts into thermal energy

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