Lesson 6 Roller Coaster Engineering

This lesson will cover pages 25 through 33

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Rollercoaster
Engineering

answer the questions

Read Page 25 about an actual Rollercoaster Engineer.

Multiple Choice

What degrees did Donnelly Williams need to be a rollercoaster engineer?

• Civil and Mechanical

• Mechanical and Physical

• Electrical and Mechanical

• Physical and Chemical

Fill in the Blanks

What do the rider test dummies have to be filled with in the testing phase of the rollercoaster?

Fill in the Blanks

In terms of fundamental engineering, if you can design a

, you can design a rollercoaster.

Multiple Select

Computer simulations test the structures of rollercoasters to determine what?

• Where the coaster is going to break

• How the coaster is going to break

• How to fix the things that might break on a rollercoaster

• How much fun the ride is

Drag and Drop

Rollercoaster designers determine how the rollercoaster will ​

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and engineers have to figure out how to make the coaster ​

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look

safe

sound

fast

exciting

colorful

​Starting from SCRATCH, build the big coaster by following the directions on pages 26-30

Build the BIG Rollercoaster!

Open Ended

Please describe what you have to do to get the train to make it all the way around the track.

Video Response

What happens when you follow the steps in experiment 17?

Open Video Recorder

Multiple Choice

The train cannot make it all the way around the track when simply dropped from the top because some of the potential energy is lost to________.

• friction

• gravity

• kinetic energy

• motion

Experiments 18-20

Page 32

You DO NOT have to do the final 3 experiments. They are totally OPTIONAL and up to you if you have time or not.

Drag and Drop

The tallest Rollercoaster in the world is ​

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located in ​

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and is ​ ​

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feet tall and can go ​

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MPH.

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Kingda Ka

New Jersey

456

90

Space Mountain

California

789

120

Tower of Terror

Drag and Drop

The world's fastest coaster is the ​

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and it can go ​

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miles per hour with a G force up to ​

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during the ride.

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Formula Rossa

Steel Dragon

Kingda Ka

149

4.8

1.7

Drag and Drop

The World's longest rollercoaster is the ​

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and it is ​

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feet and can go ​

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MPH.

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Steel Dragon

8,133

6000

95

105

Formula Rossa