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    insatiable craving for knowledge. While there‚ I never missed the opportunity to seize my two favorite VHS tapes whenever available: Popular Mechanics for Kids: Rip Roaring Roller Coasters and NOVA: Roller Coaster!. These videos nourished me with both the charm of creation and the justification behind how to assemble and operate roller coasters. Evidently‚ I admired the concept of humans possessing the ability to develop a scaled-down railroad that can successfully endure hairpin turns‚ stomach-dropping slopes

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    aunt and I went to get in line at the top thrill dragster at cedar; usually the line is 2 to 3 hours long but our wait was 45 minutes. We went to cedar point over the summer. As we went on the top thrill dragster because we have never been on the roller coaster and the line was really short. We were talking on the way to cedar point if we were going to ride the top thrill dragster. “If the line is shorter than last year we will try to get on the top thrill dragster”‚ said my aunt Mel. “okay but if we

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    The Roller Coaster has a long varied history. It has origins in large ice slides found mostly in Russia around the 16th and 17th century. In the 1800s many appeared‚ primarily in America. The industry continued into the 1920s‚ which are known as the “golden age” for roller coasters. Production for roller coasters slowed down during the Great Depression‚ and by WW2 very few were being produced.The industry has made a comeback since‚ with a large production boom beginning in the 60s-80s. The varied

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    My roller coaster is themed around the movie Jurassic park. During and around my whole ride you can animatronic versions of old prehistoric dinosaurs. Like the following‚ Velociraptors‚ triceratops‚ Stegosaurus‚ pterodactyls and many more including the T-Rex. Let me explain what you would experience during my roller coaster called The Jurassic Roller Coaster. As soon as you get on the roller coaster you will experience an a Inertia Jerk. Then you will be going up a steep hill when the only thing

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    You will be given automatic ‘zero’ or ‘F’ if you violated this instruction. Your instructor may or may not have recorded the grade/marks of your assignment when you accessed your marked/graded assignment). Case Study 4.1 Riding The Emotional Roller Coaster MGT 4110K-1 Ain (BSMS) (1027702)‚ Atiqah (BSMS) (1024780)‚ Fuziatul (BSMS) (1013388)‚ Shazlenna (BSMS) (1018288)* E-mail of sender representing the group: shazlenna.fscc@gmail.com Our group case 2 of 2 Due date: 15 April 2012 Date

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    When I was ten years old‚ I went to the Valley Fair‚ that’s also when I went on my first roller coaster. As my family and I pulled into the colossal amusement park‚ I could see it‚ the largest roller coaster I’ve seen in my life. From a distance it looked like a giant knot‚ tied with green strings‚ raised hundreds of feet off the ground. I baged‚"Mom‚ let’s do that one first!" She nonchalantly responded‚"sure." When I offered my sister‚ Jess and my Dad to join‚ but they simply denied it. They

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    1817: The first roller coaster was designed with wheels that were operated in Paris. 1840: The first roller coaster the looped was built and designed in Britain.This loop had a 43 foot drop. 1873: Mauch Chunk Railway was the first to form a complete circuit. 1884: The Switchback was the first to have people pays to ride a car on the tracks. The tracks were wooden. 1885: The first to use a lift chain in San Francisco. 1887: Atlantic city was the first to open a scenic railway. 1891: The first to build

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    will loop the loop. The underlying principle of all roller coasters is the law of conservation of energy. When a roller coaster crests the first big hill‚gravity takes over. Potential energy is sometimes known as positional energy. As the roller coaster falls is has enough kinetic energy to make it through the remainder of the ride. Inertia keeps the object in motion. The other forces bring the roller coaster to a stop by friction. Since roll coasters don’t have motors they need to be pulled up by a

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    Last week‚ my group and I were constructing the roller coaster. I contributed by installing my funnel into the coaster. I did this by making adjusting the track so that it would lead the marble to the border of the tube. I did this because learned that when the marble spins around the edge of the tube‚ it increases the time which was what we wanted. After adjusting‚ I put supports on the funnel that would help the funnel maintain its shape to have the most maximum time possible. I also contributed

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    Roller coasters can be deadly. For example‚ a teenager was killed by a roller coaster while trying to get his hat back. It blew off in the middle of the ride and he went into the restricted area to retrieve it. He was then killed when the ride crashed into him. Because of this fact‚ I freaked out when I found out that I was going to Universal with my family a few years ago. I didn’t know this‚ but I was going to have an experience of a lifetime at Legoland. On the morning of my family’s trip to

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