Roller Coaster Engineering

Roller Coaster Engineering

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of deceleration?

• Going down a slide.

• Going from 50 miles per hour to 45 miles per hour.

• Going from 0 to 25 miles per hour.

• Having an argument.

Multiple Choice

What kind of tracks are not found on a roller coaster?

• incline

• decline

• turns

• flips

Multiple Choice

Which is not an example of force?

• falling

• push

• pull

• gravity

Multiple Choice

When you change your speed to go faster, it's called...

• incline.

• acceleration.

• deceleration.

• velocity.

Multiple Choice

When the tracks go from low to high it makes an

• incline.

• energy.

• noise.

• velocity.

Multiple Choice

A _________________ moves the ball down faster

• foot

• acceleration

• horse

• decline

Multiple Choice

The cart and the tracks rub against each other creating

• fire

• friction

• incline

• sparks

Multiple Choice

Which of the following BEST describes the change in energy that occurs as a roller coaster travels from position X to position Y?

• Kinetic energy increases while potential energy decreases.

• Kinetic energy decreases while potential energy increases.

• Kinetic energy increases and potential energy increases.

• There is no change in energy.

Multiple Choice

At which position is kinetic energy the greatest?

• W

• X

• Y

• Z

Multiple Choice

At which position is potential energy the greatest?

• W

• X

• Y

• Z

Multiple Choice

At which position does the cart have the MOST potential energy?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Multiple Choice

If a drop is steeper, the roller coaster will go...

• Faster

• stop

• Slower

Multiple Choice

The force that makes a roller coaster cart actually roll is

• Rocket Power

• Gravity

• Motors

• Gears

Multiple Choice

What force caused your cart to slow down?

• friction

• applying force

• gravity

• gravity and friction

Multiple Choice

The two most important forms for amusement park rides are kinetic and potential _____

• acceleration

• Friction

• force

• energy

Multiple Choice

You try, you fail

you try, you fail

you try, you fail

It's OK if you fail as long as you keep doing this step in the engineering design process...

• Create

• Quit

• Improve

Multiple Choice

In the engineering design process, after you plan, what's the next step?

• Create

• Improve

• Imagine

• Ask

Multiple Choice

What is the main goal of the design process?

• To write reports

• To make things

• To make charts and graphs

• To find solutions to problems

Multiple Choice

What order do the steps of the Design Process go in?

• ask, brainstorm, plan, evaluate, explain

• brainstorm, ask, plan, evaluate, explain

• ask, plan, brainstorm, evaluate, explain

• ask, evaluate, explain, brainstorm, plan

Multiple Choice

What is mass?

• the force of an object caused by gravity

• the amount of space something takes up

• the amount of matter in an object

• how fast something is moving

Multiple Choice

Which has more momentum: a car stopped at a red light or a bike moving at 15 mph?

• car

• bike

• they are equal

• cannot determine using the info provided

Multiple Choice

Gravity is the force objects put on each other because of their ______.

• Mass

• Friendliness

• Acceleration

• Speed

Multiple Choice

Every object in the universe attracts every other object.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Any object with mass has gravity.

• True

• Sometimes

• False

• Never

Multiple Choice

Where is potential energy the GREATEST on a roller coaster?

• At the bottom of the first hill

• At the top of the first hill

• Half way down the first hill

Multiple Choice

Where is kinetic energy the LEAST on a roller coaster?

• At the bottom of the first hill

• At the top of the first hill

• Halfway down the first hill

Multiple Choice

A ______ is a push or a pull acting upon an object

• Acceleration

• force

• friction

• energy

Multiple Choice

Friction is a force that acts in an ___________ direction of movement.

• similar

• opposite

• parallel

• west

Multiple Choice

When the cart started rolling the energy transformation was ______.

• Potential to kinetic

• Kinetic to potential

• No energy was transformed

• Totally awesome dude!!!!!!

Multiple Choice

________ is the energy possessed by an object because of its motion.

• Power

• Force

• energy

• kinetic energy

Multiple Choice

If a drop is steeper, the roller coaster will go...

• Faster

• Crash

• Slower

• Stop

Multiple Choice

The force that makes a roller coaster roll is...?

• Rocket Power

• Gravity

• Motors

• Gears

Multiple Choice

Where does the most potential energy exist on a roller coaster?

• The top of the coaster

• The bottom of the coaster

• The middle of the coaster

• It is the same anywhere on the coaster

Multiple Choice

What force causes the carts to slow down?

• friction

• applying force

• gravity

• gravity and friction

Multiple Choice

Where would potential energy be the greatest on an old wooden roller coaster that only has one chain pulled hill.

• at the bottom of the smallest hill

• at the top of the smallest hill

• at the top of the largest hill

• at the bottom of the largest hill

Multiple Choice

When friction is caused by air or water it is called

• action

• fraction

• drag

• waves

Multiple Choice

Where on a wooden roller coaster that has one chain pulled hill, would the greatest kinetic energy exist.

• bottom of the first hill

• bottom of the last hill

• the first curve

• the last curve