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A force called centripetal force. Please check the related link to know more.

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Q: What keeps you pressed against your seat on a roller coaster?
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What force keeps you in a roller coaster?

centripetal force


What keeps the cars down on a roller coaster?

Momentum


How come when you make a roller coaster in Roller coaster designer and then put it in a park it doesn't let you It keeps saying roller coaster position too high?

If in roller coaster designer you get the coaster to go underground, then that's the problem. If you load that coaster you can't put a part of it underground.


What keeps somebody from falling out of an upside down roller coaster?

inertia


What keeps people in the cars on a roller coaster?

Restraints and centrifugal force.


What kind of energy keeps the roller coaster down the hill?

Kinetic energy


What keeps the roller coaster from falling of the track?

The wheels are on top, between and below the tracks.


What is fundamentals principal that all roller coaster are based on?

There is a few principals that are looked at when building a roller coaster. Some principals that are looked at are what keep coaster cars flying around on their tracks, the tolls that keeps everything running and the forces that make the ride fun.


When traveling around a curve in a car on a roller coaster how do you explain what feels like a force pushing you outward?

inertia. because inertia keeps things going in a straight line, and that kind of throws it forward, but the direction of "foward" keeps changing as the car or roller coaster turns.


Why must curved roller coaster tracks on a roller coaster be banked?

Previous Answer => "Because of the law of inertia."Improved Answer => Well, yes I suppose, but it is not necessary based on that fact.Since roller coasters have a special three-wheel design that keeps coaster trains on the track NO MATTER WHAT, banking doesn't "keep the ride on the tracks". If anything, banking keeps the coaster safe (in terms of G's) and comfortable to actually be enjoyed versus being painful. A coaster and it's riders will follow the track no matter what, since again of the three-wheel design patented by John Miller in the 1920's AND the restraints on rides that keep people in. It is the G's that concern designers, not if the train will fall off.


What keeps us safe from falling from a roller coaster?

I suppose you're talking about the loop-dee-loops? It's G-Force. The bar helps also. :)


What acceleration has to do with a roller coaster?

When the roller coaster starts to stop your body wants to keep moving, that is inertia.