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Roller Coaster Essay

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If you are ready for the thrill of a lifetime, this ride is the one for you! Exhilarating, amazing, exciting, unexpected and awesome, are just a few words that describe this ride. It all starts out normal, just like any ordinary roller coaster. To start, the ride uses work to get the ride moving and keeps moving at a constant speed. Even while riding up the 75 feet, or the 22.86 meter hill, you are still moving up at a constant speed. Throughout almost the whole roller coaster, you have kinetic energy. Except for when you arrive to the top of the hill, balanced forces act on you, and you come to a complete stop. At this point, your cart has the greatest potential energy. After a little while at the top of the hill, when the tension starts to build, Newton’s 1st Law is acted on the ride, and work, or force, launches you down the hill, accelerating rapidly. Newton’s 1st Law is that an object will stay at rest, unless acted in by an unbalanced force. Racing down the hill you are free-falling, and experiencing …show more content…

You start off above ground, and end underground. What other roller coasters do that! You want to tell everybody, “Hey! I rode this one roller coaster, and there are no other roller coaster like it!” Your friends will then respond, “Woah!”

The whole ride goes through a construction site, and there are cranes everywhere. From the outside through, the ride can be a little deceiving. If you watch people before you, you will notice that the riders go down in a spiral in their carts. After a little bit, the carts come up from underground with no people in them…. Want to know how this happens? You have to ride the ride to find out!

Just to recap in case you forgot because of all you excitement, the ride starts off with two massive hills, one huge loop, a spiral towards the ground, a 100 foot drop underground in the dark, another loop, and finally, another hill. Your top speed will end up being a little over 80

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