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Create Your Own Roller Coaster With Downloadable P
Create Your Own Roller Coaster With Downloadable P
Create Your Own Roller Coaster With Downloadable PDF or DIY Track.
by Sciencecityed
Rollercoasters are all about physics! Unlike most moving vehicles, cars, trains, and buses that rely on engines,
rollercoasters rely on gravitational potential energy. What goes up, must come down.
Potential energy is stored or held energy by an object that can be caused by an objects position or elevation, height
o the ground. An example is when the rollercoaster is in its beginning position before it goes downhill.
When the coaster moves downhill, the potential energy is converted to kinetic energy, or the energy of motion.
When it moves uphill it will lose kinetic energy by slowing down and gain potential energy. As the process
continues through loops, hills, and turns, the rollercoaster will eventually come back the beginning, ending in
potential energy.
To build a successful paper coaster, we’ll need to take these factors into consideration. You’ll have to make sure
your marble has enough potential energy to make it through your whole track.
Supplies:
Paper
Tape
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
Cardboard
Marble
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Step 1: Print PDF Templates
The template les are attached to this instructable. If you DO NO T HAVE A PRINT ER , no problem! If you are
creating the roller coaster templates yourself, the instructions are added at the end of this instructable. (DIY
instructions begin at step 11)
Download
https://www.instructables.com/ORIG/FIW/6I5I/K8HKHDA9/FIW6I5IK8HKHDA9.pdf
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Step 3: Fold Along Dash Lines
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Step 5: Tape Tabs to Hold It in Place.
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Step 7: Tape Supports to a Cardboard Base
Using a piece of cardboard as a base, assemble your track according to your plan. Tape the track segments together
end-to-end to connect them.
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Step 9: Test It! Place the Marble at the Top of Your Track and Let It Go. Watch Carefully.
Try again and Explore If your marble didn't make it to the end, try to gure out why.
Is there a spot in your track where the marble got stuck? Was the marble going too slow to make it through a loop?
If necessary, make changes to your design, like making the curves more gradual or the starting hill taller, and try
again.
If the marble made it the whole way to the end, try making your track longer by adding more segments.
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Step 11: If You DO NOT HAVE a PRINTER, NO PROBLEM
In this section of the instructable we will give you dimensions for each of the roller coaster sections used in the
preceding 10 steps. These include: Straight sections, Loops and hills, curves, and support struts.
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Step 13: DIY Loops and Hills Segments
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This is fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing :D
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