Monday, November 24, 2008

Amusement Park Physics (Interactive)

http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/index.html

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it is really cool how you can use science to calculate the angels of a rollercoaster

Anonymous said...

I think that it is really cool that you can design your own rollercoaster and predict the direction of bumper car collisions.

Anonymous said...

This was a fun game and i can tell that you need to be extremely precise and know that it's very safe and people will want to ride it. I couldn't complete the roller coaster because however small or large i may make them it's too boring and too "unsafe." People who really design roller coasters are really good!

Lex said...

This is a fun game. I sort of cheated with the roller coaster, but it was fun. I was mad when I got a double thumbs down. The bumper car thing was also really interesting. I got a lot of the questions wrong.

Anonymous said...

That's awesome. I, like alexis, also got double thumbs down on the roller coaster. The only things I did wrong were the exit and the loop! I loved how they also gave you the complete physics, while still keeping it simple enough to understand.

Anonymous said...

I got a thumbs up fun and safety. I thought that was cool but it wasn't very fun. I thought you could see your coaster in action.

Anonymous said...

This website is really cool and fun. It it kind of boring after getting the rollercoaster right a few times. The bumper cars were interesting and i thought that we should have been able to see our rollercoaster move!! At least the Bumper cars moved all in all, we liked it.

Anonymous said...

This game was really fun, but we also loved how theme parks incorporate science and laws of physics. The roller coaster game was fun, and hard but we liked that you could see the answers. The bumper cars was easy and we got them all right. This was awesome, you should put on more games like this, but make them more fun!!!

Anonymous said...

It was really cool and fun because you can design and make your own roller coaster! And that you can get your own fun and safety rating. But it is also cool that you can use science to calculate the angles of a roller coaster as Michael said. Overall, the website was really interesting!

Anonymous said...

The game was really fun! Experimenting with the design of the roller coaster was interesting. Thanks for posting this!

Anonymous said...

I really liked learning about the physics about many different rides. I loved building the roller coaster. I kept going for two thumbs up but I could never get it. Then I decided to make it as safe as possible. While I was doing that, I got a double thumbs up!!!

Anonymous said...

I FINALLY DID IT! It took me many tries and i cheated but i got the thumbs up on fun and safe! Yay! P.S. If you see me at school congratulate me.

Anonymous said...

This was sooo cool! We think that this was a fun game. WE had trouble making it fun, but the safety of it was PERFECT! yay! We really liked learning about the different angles, and learning about physics. It was fun that we got to actually do it instead of just learning about it. WE HAD FUN!

Anonymous said...

That's really cool! I really understood that you need your roller coaster to be safe and for it to be fun. I also loved the bumper cars to see where they go.