Design a Roller Coaster Try your hand at designing your own roller coaster. You will be building a conceptual coaster using the physics concepts that are used to design real coasters. You …

How does a roller coaster work? What you may not realize as you're cruising down the track at 60 miles an hour is that the coaster has no engine. The car is pulled to the top of the first hill at …

OBJECTIVE: Kids will be able to design simple roller coasters as means of converting one form of energy to another and its relationship to the speed of an object.

In this exhibit, you'll have a chance to find out by designing your own roller coaster. Plan it carefully--it has to pass a safety inspection.You can also experiment with bumper car collisions.

Amusement Park Physics -- Design a Roller Coaster: Height of first hill

In a roller coaster loop, riders are pushed inwards toward the center of the loop by forces resulting from the car seat (at the loop's bottom) and by gravity (at the loop's top).

Adding a loop to your coaster adds the thrill of inversion to the other elements of speed and the pull of gravity. Loops and rolling loops are considered a "necessity" for any steel coaster; …

Amusement Park Physics -- Design a Roller Coaster: Exit path

In this exhibit, you'll have a chance to find out by designing your own roller coaster. Plan it carefully--it has to pass a safety inspection.You can also experiment with bumper car collisions.

Still, carousels are as reliant on the laws of motion as their more exciting cousins, the roller coasters. It's theoretically possible that, allowed to spin out of control, a carousel could gain …