How does a roller coaster use physics?

Answer 1

it doesn't but it depends on the model and make of the coaster a B & M coaster isn't at all affected by momentum because it gains momentum at the top of the left hill or launch tube. and the rest of the ride as they say is cake. take the hulk coaster at IOA it's not affected by the momentum and neither is the Kraken.

Answer 2

A roller coaster uses physics by applying simple mechanical principles. This amusement ride is a gravity operated, fixed course, recreational vehicle. Let's see how it works.

A string of cars on a closed track is filled with riders. Those cars and riders have some amount of mass. The cars are engaged to a mechanism that pulls them up to a high point on the track, and this adds potential energy to the cars and riders. The cars are then released over top of that high point, and gravity pulls them down accelerating them. The cars gather speed, and their inertia carries them through some ups and downs and loops and corkscrews (or whatever else the ride is designed to do), and all of this with the energy that was put in by the lifting mechanism.

There are frictional losses throughout the ride, but the mass of the cars and riders is calculated so that there is plenty of energy added at the start to allow the car string and its riders to reach the end of the ride. There, the remaining energy is bled off using a braking system, and the cars are brought to a safe stop so the riders may disembark.

Answer 3

The tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, propels the coaster over rises, defying gravity, after which gravity takes over speeding it up for the next event.

Answer 4

everything, the hulk gets its momentum from the first drop

Answer 5

Momentum in a roller coaster is found in the vehicle as it travels around the track.

Answer 6

A Lot

Answer 7

at the drop

Answer 8

Moment