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Oller Oaster Hysics Roller Coaster Desgin Activity: Draw Them VERY Neatly and Evenly Spaced

This document provides instructions for designing and building a scale model of a roller coaster. Students are asked to draw diagrams of their coaster designs showing velocities, g-forces, and heights. The models will be built on cardboard with paper track and foam or folder supports. Examples of coaster track elements like loops and hills are illustrated. Finally, students are encouraged to film actual roller coaster rides to later calculate train velocities based on the footage.

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Oller Oaster Hysics Roller Coaster Desgin Activity: Draw Them VERY Neatly and Evenly Spaced

This document provides instructions for designing and building a scale model of a roller coaster. Students are asked to draw diagrams of their coaster designs showing velocities, g-forces, and heights. The models will be built on cardboard with paper track and foam or folder supports. Examples of coaster track elements like loops and hills are illustrated. Finally, students are encouraged to film actual roller coaster rides to later calculate train velocities based on the footage.

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ROLLER C OASTER PHYSICS Roller Coaster Desgin Activity

Objective: To design and build a simple, to scale, 3-D, roller coaster model.

Design a roller coaster on paper, show the velocities, g’s felt, and heights. The diagram needs to be
neat and readable. The model is to be to scale on a piece of card board. The track is made from
paper. The supports are made from manila folder or foam core board. The lines on the track
represent the cross-ties on the track. Please print them off on a computer or draw them VERY neatly
and evenly spaced.

Hanging coaster like the Alpengeist

Card board Manila folder


base or foam core
supports

Foam core
base

Foam core sides to give this irregular


shaped loop some needed rigidity. The
track is laid inside the loop.

- 153 - by Tony Wayne


ROLLER C OASTER PHYSICS ONE FINAL NOTE OF PREPARATION

This year when you go to the amusement park bring a cam corder and a camera. Video tape
the roller coaster rides. Choose a hill where the cars are not moving too fast. Zoom the cam corder
on the hill without moving the cam corder. The train will pass in and out of view. Next year show the
class the video tape. Have the students use the tape to calculate the velocity of the train at this spot
on the hill. It is great real life practice. Below is an example of the view frame for such a taping.

VIEW FRAME OF THE CAM CORDER FOCUSED ON


THE ROLLER COASTER’S TRACK ON A HILL.

With the camera, take pictures of loops, hills, curves, etc. Either use slide film or make these
pictures into overheads. You can show them to the students before they go so they will be prepared
to take the right measurements. You can also use these pictures so students can look at the hills on
a roller coaster and rate them in terms of velocity over the top of each.

- 154 - by Tony Wayne

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