Balanced and Unbalanced Forces: As you ride you stay in your seat by gravity pushing you down and acceleration pushing you up.

Centripetal Forces: During the ride as you go through loops you won't fall out of your seat.

Energy: At the very beginning of the ride your first loop you gain potential energy as you go up and kinetic as you go down. You also gain air resistance and friction at the end to slow down the cart.

Force: Throughout a whole roller coaster ride you get a push to get you from the beginning to end. You also have a pulling force to get up on a loop.

G: G is much like acceleration but is the a amount of speed you gain per second.

Gravitational Force: Without gravitational force you would not have much movement. Gravitational force depends on the amount of mass two objects have.

Inertia: This is the state of a cart being in motion then not. It all comes down to mass

Mass: Mass is the weight of one or more objects just like the people inside of the ride and how much the cart weighs.

Momentum: When more people ride a roller coaster it seems to go out of control because of all the mass and control it has.

Period: An example of a period is the amount of time it takes to get from one loop to another.

Velocity: Velocity is the distance and speed you go in a certain direction like the amount of time it takes to get from one side of the coaster to the end.

Weightless: The amount of weight a certain object can hold.

begging to end. As a roller coaster moves on the

railroad track the cart slides against the tracks it

allows the cart to move. It also slows you down

near the end of the ride.

all the time especially in roller coasters. Kinetic

energy is the amount of force you apply to an object.

Potential energy is the amount of energy something

posses. Kinetic energy is used to make the cart move

In a roller coaster and potential energy is the energy

That lets you finish the coaster.

Is the amount of heat in a unit of energy.

top of Russia Mountains in Saints Petersburg. The Russians made

there roller coaster from 70 to 80 feet high.

The Kingda Ka is 465 ft tall and has the longest drop of them all at 418

ft. The fastest roller coaster is the Formula Rossa at Ferrari Park with a

Speed of 149 miles per hour. The longest roller coaster is the Steel

Dragon 2000 with a length of 8,133 ft