weekly blog

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Summary:
        When you are making a roller coaster you have to make it so that if you have any loops or hills or turns that you have enough acceleration to keep you going. You have to remember that gravity will push you down so you have to have enough acceleration and force to overcome that inertia. You also have to make sure that you have enough supports to keep your roller coaster up and make sure that it does not lean and the supports don't break. Whenever you are making a real roller coaster you have to make a model to see if everything works and if you have a good enough amount of acceleration to keep the riders going. Another thing is to make it fun and interesting for your riders and make sure that you have twist, turns, loops, hills, a big drop, etc. There are lots of things that go into making a roller coasters and you have to understand gravity, acceleration, newtons laws of motion and more.

S&EP: SP2: Developing and using models:
        This week we had to make a roller coaster model using insulation tubing, dowels,hot glue, masking tape, and cardboard. We also have to make sure that we have a loop and or a hill to make it interesting and we used a marble in place of the riders. We had to make it so that the marble could go on our full roller coaster without falling off and if it did fall of then we would have to fix it. We before studied gravity, acceleration, force, newtons laws or motion,etc, to prepare for making the roller coaster and through assignment we would find out how much money we have for materials. This was something that took a little bit of time but in the end it was fun and exciting to see the marble make it all the way through our roller coaster without falling off. This was fun to do to learn more about gravity, acceleration and more and it was fun too.