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Circle of Death. By: Tony Smith, Ethan Lowrance , Chase Thompson, & Joe Mulholland-Daniels. Introduction. Design and build a roller coaster that transports an object from a start point to an end point in a specified time.
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Circle of Death By: Tony Smith, Ethan Lowrance, Chase Thompson, & Joe Mulholland-Daniels
Introduction • Design and build a roller coaster that transports an object from a start point to an end point in a specified time. • The roller coaster must complete its cycle within 15 seconds or as close to it as possible. • For this project, we used 8 insulator piping which cost us about $8; gardening wire, which ran us about $2.50; and duck tape, which was free. For a total of about $10.50.
Description • The Circle of Death, an enjoyable ride or a roller coaster from hell? Using the influence of Olympic bobsleds, any person who gets on this is in for the time of their life. As the acceleration pushes them into a circular frenzy, friction acts in an opposite direction of the tangential velocity to slow them to an exciting yet safe speed.
Construction Issues • The biggest issue we had was trying to make the track stay together. • We also had an issue with finding the right height to make the roller coaster last for 15 seconds.
Conclusion • Overall, this project didn’t really take us that long to finish. • Most of our time came from trying to figure out how we wanted to design the roller coaster and making sure that it last 15 seconds. • We are happy to be done with EF 151!!!!! YAY!!!!!!