Roller Coasters

The typical roller coaster starts out with a cog rail that boosts the cars to a height. Here, electrical energy is added to the system, and converted to gravitational potential energy. At the top, the coaster basically stops before starting the plunge. As the cars plunge, the potential energy is converted to the energy of motion (kinetic energy). If there are subsequent ups and downs, kinetic energy is partially traded back to potential energy and vice versa. At the end, a brake slows the cars down right at the finish, converting the kinetic energy to heat. During the ride, some friction also converts some energy to heat irreversibly.

Height of the tallest hill, I guess is the answer. There could be some other factors in the shape of the course like twists or spirals which would have some angular effect on the speed, as well.

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Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH has 17 roller coasters. Six Flags Magic Mountain in Los Angeles, CA has 16 and will debut its 17th roller coaster in the summer of 2010. Cedar Point is working on its 18th coaster, but it won't come out before the new one at Six Flags Magic Mountain. That means the record will be shared for a while, but Cedar Point will take it away soon.

Both Medusa in Great Adventure (now called Bizarro) and in Discovery Kingdom have 7 loops. The is a Medusa in Six Flags Mexico that is wood and has no loops.

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1.Ring Racer (Germany)

2.Kingda Ka (NJ, USA)

3.Top Thrill Dragster(OH, USA)

4.Dodompa (Japan)

Ring racer is new and was recently added to the top 5 reaching speeds of 135 mph.Unlike Kingda ka and top thrill, ring racer launches and then goes through a normal roller coaster. Kingda ka and Top thrill dragster lanch and go straight up and down

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the roller coaster is faster than a rocket falling out of the sky.

provides a force downwards on slopes. this causes acceleration in the downwards direction, and decelleration in the upwards direction, which is then translated into lateral motion as the track curves. As friction slows the cart, conservation of energy E=mgh prevents the cart from reaching its original height without additional boosters/chains. To simplify: gravity provides the accelerateing force to cause the cart to coast.

lots and lots of inversion's and very, very tall. it also must be fast and have a drop.

The steepest drop on a roller coaster can be found on Mumbo Jumbo at Flamingoland park in (Malton, Yorkshire, England). It's drop is 112 degrees.

A close second place goes to Steel Hawg at Indiana Beach (Monticello, Indiana) at 111 degrees. Both coasters listed above are nearly identical in layout and style.

There are also other rides that "cheat" their way into the records, but can be classified as drops.

The Afterburner coaster at Wonder Island has a 150-degree drop followed by a 160-degree drop, but both are lined with brakes to guide the car down the drop with a rather slowed speed, thus not truly dropping.

Another ride worth noting is the "Screamin' Squirrel" ride model by S&S Power (all these record-breakers are S&S rides). The Screamin' Squirrel technically speaking has a 180-degree drop, but some could argue it not to be a drop.

Gravit & speed. Coasters usually start with a long climb up a steep incline. This gives the 'cars' potential energy. Once they go over the top (or brow) of the incline, gravity takes over, increasing the cars speed.

Friction, slows the roller coaster down to a slow enough pace that it eventually stops.

Kingda Ka and it's 456 feet high and it's in Six Flags Great Adventure.

there once was a ride called the flip flap railway which produced 12 gs it was so dangerous it had to be demolished nowadays the high g coasters are

mindbender 5.2 gs

shockwave 5.9s

tower of terror 6.3gs

moonsault scramble 6.8gs

you go about 75 miles per hour on the drops.

Roller coasters are made of either steel or wood, somtimes both.

uase it just does. The cars move. Motion of material things IS kinetic energy.

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Things like descending a very tall hill or turns affect the speed of a roller coaster. Riding down the hills increases speed, and turns slow the coaster down.

Mechanical Energy encompasses both Kinetic and Potential energies. A roller coaster is a perfect example of both. At the very top of a hill, the roller coaster has a lot of potential energy due to position above the earth. As it goes down a hill, this potential energy decreases as it gets closer to the earth, and it's kinetic energy increases as it gets faster.

KE = energy of motion

PE = potential energy due to position above the earth

ME = KE+PE

Granville T. Woods invented the roller coaster after he stole the idea from Abraham Lincoln in 1877. This was during the mesozoic era so the mostly dinosaurs went on them. It was more frequent for a Tyranosaurs rex (t-rex) to ride a roller coaster than a triceratops