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    Are you tired of the old, boring roller coasters? Well here is a new, thrillful roller coaster that everyone will enjoy. Expedition Olympus is a exciting roller coaster that takes you through an amazing Greek God adventure. As you are on the ride a pulling force takes you through the clouds, at a constant speed, till you reach Mount Olympus, where the gods and goddesses live. You keep traveling forward, with potential energy, till you reach Zeus's lightning bolt. Which takes you at a freefall, that

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    chest as I approached the ride. I sat down in the coaster and wiped the sweat off my forehead. My friend said he wasn’t nervous but I could see him biting his lip in fear. The ride slowly pulled us up the lift

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    Do you want to ride an unbelievable new roller coaster? Then come and ride the Fire Loop! This new roller coaster includes a speed of 100 miles per hour! It also It also features a complete spiral. This is featured on very few other roller coasters in the world! But don’t worry- it is completely safe. This coaster uses Centripetal Force to keep riders safely on the track. When you first start the ride, you are projected forward at a velocity of 80 mph. Soon after, you go up a large hill that goes

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    In a park near you very soon a roller coaster will be drawing near...furthermore, not only is there a roller coaster that has never been seen before but also the most magnificent coaster that you've seen. The Looper...The Looper is one of the fastest roller coasters in all of Hershey Park. It speeds in excess of 70 miles per hour. When you are riding The Looper you will feel countless different feelings. As a matter of fact, you will feel not only ecstatic and delighted but also thrill and suspense

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    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. A roller coaster is like train. It consists of a series of connected cars that move on tracks. But unlike a passenger train, a roller coaster has no engine or power source of its own. For most of the ride, a roller coaster is moved only by the forces of inertia

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    fast roller coasters, then you should go to the twist park in PA. It is where the fastest roller coaster in PA is located. going 174 miles per hour. And the highest point on the ride is 320 feet high. It is called the speedster and is the best rated roller coaster in pennsylvania. It is about a 4 minute ride. The theme is a haunted mansion in the middle of nowhere. and there is a ocean around it filled with sharks. And a graveyard filled with zombies trying to eat you. The thing the roller coaster

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    Have you ever been on a broken elevator or gone on a roller coaster called” The Scream?” Well, when I was nine, I rode BOTH of those at Disneyland. This trip was important to me because it was one of the last vacations we took as a family before my parents got divorced. In June of 2012, our family decided to go on a vacation together. My mom, dad, brothers, sister, and I got into the car and drove to California from Idaho. It took us about eight hours to get there. When we arrived we checked into

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    Roller Coasters were first built in January of 1885, since then thousands of people have traveled to amusement park in order to ride these rides. When they were first invented they were made out of wood and did not have many turns or tricks. Through the years they have evolved into metal with many turns, loops, and heights. With the added on thrills, there are many dangers, deaths, and accidents that come along with riding roller coasters. Although, roller coaster may seem safe to all those who

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    The purpose of this project was to find a function that models the track on the Millennium Force roller coaster. During this project we created two functions to model this roller coaster, one of which was a cubic function and the other was a quartic polynomial. Overall, the quartic polynomial modeled the track of the roller coaster the best. It modeled the track the best for two main reasons. The first being that the end behaviors of the quartic polynomial compared to those of the cubic function

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    Rollercoaster Report Task 1. Aim: To investigate energy changes in a rollercoaster, and to investigate to role of wasted energy. 2. Introduction: -Nowadays, in almost every theme park, there is a special ride called Roller coaster. ---The question here is, how does it work and why are people addicted to it. - The movement of a rollercoaster relies on two types of energies: Gravitational Potential Energy (GPE) and Kinetic Energy (KE). GPE is a stored energy due to gravity (Potential & Kinetic

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