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History
Roller Coaster Parts
Coasters and Gravity
Energy
Potpourri
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It was in this place and century that first roller coasters were created?
What is Russia in the 17th century
100
The traditional method for lifting a coaster up a hill
What is the chain lift?
100

The acceleration due to gravity

What is nothing


100
The quantitative component's of kinetic energy. K = ?
What is 1/2mv^2?
100
The equation for centripetal acceleration
What is v^2/r?
200
Some of the first French were greased with this surfer's friend?
What is Wax?
200
Where the brakes on a roller coaster are traditionally positioned
What is in the track?
200
The tallest hill in the entire ride
What is the initial hill?
200
What Landon claims he can do with energy but is actually impossible. (Energy can neither be __________ nor _____________).
What is created/destroyed?
200
Clothoid loops work to reduce these on passengers
What is centripetal accelaration/G's?
300
This early roller coaster was shut down by the French government after only one accident
What is the Centrifuge Railway?
300
This catapult system uses electromagnets to build two magnetic fields
What is the linear-induction motor?
300
Potential energy's quantitative components: U = ?
What is mgh?
300
The sum of kinetic and potential energy in a roller coaster
What is the total mechanical energy?
300
Banking turns help to convert these into normal G-forces
What are lateral g's?
400
You probably couldn't wear your sandals on this early coaster but you could get your neck snapped by it's circular loop
What is the Flip-Flap Railway?
400
A gigacoaster is a coaster with a height of between 300 and ___9 feet
What is 399?
400
Mr. Humphries' brother threw up after riding on this coaster, themed on a movie about Nascar that starred Tom Cruise.
What is The Days of Thunder?
400
What a roller coaster does after it is pulled up the initial hill
What is simply coasts?
400
High speed coasters tend to use these type of turns
What are banked turns?
500
The first tubular steel roller coaster, opened in 1959.
What is the Matterhorn?
500

Ms. Ward, the site director's, middle name. Which has nothing to do with roller coaster parts.

What is Patrisha?

500
A planet where a roller coaster would fall to the ground faster than on earth
What is Jupiter (or other large planets)
500
What your body's inertia, or resistance to the train's changes in directions, is often called.
What is centrifugal force?
500
The Chicago neighborhood where Mr. Humphries' school is located
What is Lincoln Park?