Types of RCs
Thrill
Physics I
Physics II
Features & History
100
What type of roller coaster is the oldest in the US?
What is a wooden roller coaster?
100
"Simulator" rides can trick your brain, because your body can only sense acceleration and not this.
What is velocity?
100
This type of force causes a roller coaster track to heat up.
What is friction?
100
Energy due to position or configuration is called this.
What is potential energy?
100
This feature is probably the most important because it determines whether or not the coaster will make it to the end
What is the first hill?
200
This type of thrill ride uses your senses for thrill rather than an actual track
What is a motion simulator?
200
A thrill seeker is really someone who seeks this
What is new sensations?
200
On earth, with what value of acceleration do objects fall?
What is 9.8 m/s^2
200
This type of energy increases when speed increases.
What is kinetic energy?
200
This feature was first introduced at Knott's Berry Farm in 1975
What is a corkscrew?
300
This type of roller coaster might use electromagnetic induction
What is an accelerator?
300
Thrill seeking is strongest during this period of life
What is teens to twenties?
300
This property of objects is a measure of their inertia.
What is mass?
300
This law can be succinctly referred to as the "law of inertia."
What is Newton's 1st law?
300
The origins of roller coasters can be traced back to this attraction first created in Russia
What is an ice slide?
400
This type of roller coaster debuted in 1992, giving riders a whole new experience of their feet hanging.
What is a suspended or inverted roller coaster?
400
Of the genders, this one tends to be LESS thrill seeking
What is women?
400
This law relates the total force on an object to its acceleration.
What is Newton's 2nd law?
400
A roller coaster hill is used to convert _______ energy into ______ energy.
What is "potential" and "kinetic"?
400
Six Flags Magic Mountain introduced a 4-Dimensional roller coaster called "X" in this year
What is 2001?
500
This type of roller coaster has a drop that is greater than 200 feet tall
What is a hypercoaster?
500
Research shows that there are differences in how this part of the body responds in thrill seekers.
What is the brain?
500
A body undergoing this is experiencing either a change in speed or a change in direction.
What is acceleration?
500
This force, other than gravity, is used on some modern coasters to generate high speeds.
What is the electromagnetic force?
500
This feature is composed of the overlap of two circles
What is a clothoid loop?
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