Informative Essay On Roller Coasters

The first roller coasters were patented by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1885 (Wikipedia), but roller coasters existed long before their paten. Back in late sixteenth century Russia there was a sport known as ice sliding where one would start at the top of a 70-foot wooden structure and pummel down a 600 feet long track on one’s 2-foot-long sleigh (Throgmorton 10). Ice sliding was only available during the winter months, so in the warmer months the Russians would affix wheels to their sleighs so they could enjoy sliding year round. Then in the late eighteenth century a French traveler built a conveyer-like coaster by placing rollers on a wooden track so that riders could coast down the track, thus came the name Roller Coaster (Throgmorton 10).

At the beginning of the blue colored track, there was a sharp turn. As soon as all of the carts complete the turn, the fun would begin because we would start to climb the 100 foot drop off. Clickity-clack, clickity-clack, the chains sang as they wheeled the carts up the steep drop off. Before I knew it, our cart, the first cart, was at the top of the 100 foot drop off. I could see everything from there. The swirling black Octopus ride was t0 the right of us, the gigantic Ferris Wheel twirled around and around to the left of us, and in front of us the old wooden roller coaster, High Roller, roared as the carts sped around the tracks.

The roller coaster has its beginnings in Russia where during the 1600's. People crafted sleds out of wood and built hills made of ice blocks. The hills had sand at the bottom to help slow down the sleds so they would not crash when they reached the bottom of the hill.1 Over time, the roller coaster has become more complex. They now are taller, faster

Roller coasters are driven almost entirely by inertial, gravitational and centripetal forces. Amusement parks keep building faster and more complex roller coasters, but the fundamental principles at work remain the same.

This story tells of the time the crooked roller coaster park tycoon Alexander Zofovich organized the cruelest contest the world had ever seen.
Dr. Zofovich was a twenty-five year old who inherited his deceased father’s fortune, and the family’s roller coaster theme park called “The Land of the Dead”. It was a ghostly haunting themed park with three very fast and thrilling roller coasters and one unused, still in construction, ride. It was rumoured to be the longest and slowest ride ever built in all of the history of rides... and nobody could get out until it had completed the circuit. When this ride was completed the Doctor would create a contest to subject the hardiest of all amusement park lovers to the test of their life.

“It goes upside down!” I said. My sister was telling me about a roller coaster ride in Disney World after our parents had broken the news that we were going the summer of my fourth grade year. The idea of going to a park was amazing, but the terrifying part was my slight fear of the fast roller coasters that my family enjoys. My parents looked at me, and I smiled with uncertainty. But on the contrary I started to feel a faint feeling of ambition because maybe I could overcome my fear.

What do you think about when you're on a roller coaster? Do you ever think how you're being pulled up this huge hill or down the hill?

At some point in life everyone takes a ride on a roller coaster, most people don’t now where they come from and when they were invented, lets take a look to the origin and history of the roller coasters, the initiative for modern roller coasters is based in a very common kid’s attraction that you can find in any playground, the slide. During the 17th century Russian slides come to a whole new level across Russia, but they weren’t normal slides, they were ice slides. As the name says these slides were frozen over with ice and the riders were simply push down sitting on a matt adding some protection between the raider and the ice, and were tall wood structures. Catherine

Roller Coaster have many different things that come together in order for it to become a “ride.” Many people probably do not understand the different things that has to happen in order for roller coaster to even move. There are many things such as; acceleration, energy, force, gravity, inertia, Newton’s Laws of Motion, Velocity and weight that has to come together in order for a roller coaster to move. Roller Coasters are made by rapid changes in speed and or direction. The speed and direction of the riders change because the amount of acceleration the rides have.

A roller coaster consists of a wealth of physics. The main ones would be work, which is Potential energy, and the other being energy, which would be Kinetic energy. In this paper I will explain the potential energy and Kinetic energy in a roller coaster. Potential energy will always vary depending on the weight of the object and the height that it’s at or going to. In this case a roller coaster requires a lot of potential energy due to the fact that the car is not motorized and are heavy due to the fact that they are loaded with a lot of people plus its own weight.

I realized then how this is a true adventure for me. For this moment, I have no idea how I will conquer this challenge. I know for sure that I will not end up dead or hurt, but I just don’t know what the solution is. For this moment, I am stranded. However, in the next moment, I must go on. I pull myself up, tighten my backpack, and fix my helmet. I make my way down one trail, but decide it will be too treacherous. I pull my folded map out of my pocket. It says that there is only one way down, and it’s the way that I have just checked out.

I have this fear that causes my body to shake. When I think about it, my skin becomes pale and cold. It’s death speeding through my mind. Once I have seen these monstrous roller coasters, the only thing in my mind was fear. Knowing that I’m afraid to go on these rides, I didn’t want to look like a fool in front of my friends. My mind is thinking of deadly thoughts. My palms were sweaty and I was twitching like a fish. I was petrified of heights.

My life used to be great! I was the main attraction at Jerry’s Amusement Park. Everyone waited in line just to ride me. Everyone loved me because I was the tallest, fastest, and best looking roller coaster in the entire park. The other roller coasters were jealous that they didn’t get all the attention. I would remind them every day that I was the best roller coaster in the park. I had almost no friends because of that. Now, I’m ignored, forgotten, all alone, and left to rot. Just like the junk pile that is next to the park.

Adventure tourism has grown rapidly in the recent years and has become increasingly commercialised. It can be defined multiple ways including when a participant is involved in an outdoor activity and confronts nature in order to experience risk (Walle, 1997), or where the principle attraction is an outdoor activity using specialised equipment (Swarbrooke et al.)

You wait in line for what seems like forever and finally you take your seat. You pull the paddle bars so they fit snug against your shoulders. You reach the top and then comes the big drop. You start screaming or if you're daring you put your hands up and enjoy the ride. I'm of course speaking of roller coasters. Today I'm going to go over the history, the different types of roller coasters, the mechanics, and the most important part, safety of roller coasters.