How Powerful are You? A Stair Climb Power Lab.
by David Gleeson
Students calculate their own physical power output by walking, and then hustling/running, up a flight of stairs. The change in potential energy (changing height) is the work they do (fighting gravity) divided by the time it takes then is their power output..
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