Bozbey Ferruh SEYHAN

Top Thrill Dragster

• Top Thrill Dragster is a steel accelerator roller coaster located at Cedar Point in
Sandusky, Ohio. This amazing speed machine is one of the tallest and fastest
roller coasters on Earth. You're launched to speeds of 120 mph in less than 4
seconds.The ride's just getting started as you climb 420 feet into the air, crest a
massive hill and spiral 270 degrees as you speed towards the finish line.

 When Top Thrill Dragster debuted, it set four new records:

 World's tallest complete circuit roller coaster
 World's tallest roller coaster
 World's tallest roller coaster drop
 World's fastest roller coaster

• As of 2019, Top Thrill Dragster has the second tallest height, the third fastest
speed, and the second-highest drop among steel roller coasters in the world.

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Height 420 ft (130 m)
Drop 400 ft (120 m)
Length 2,800 ft (850 m)
Speed 120 mph (190 km/h)
Duration 0:30
Height restriction 52–78 in (132–198 cm)
Max vertical angle 90°
Capacity 1,000 riders per hour
Acceleration 0 to 120 mph (0 to 193 km/h) in 4 seconds
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• The explanation for the various sensations experienced on a roller coaster loop are associated
with Newton's laws of motion and the physics of circular motion.
• A coaster rider is continuously altering her direction of motion while moving through the loop.
At all times, the direction of motion could be described as being tangent to the loop. This
change in direction is caused by the presence of unbalanced forces and results in an
acceleration. Not only is there an acceleration, the magnitude and direction of the acceleration
is continuously changing. Within nearly a one second time interval, the riders may experience
accelerations of 20 m/s/s downwards to 30 m/s/s upwards; such drastic changes in acceleration
normally occur as the rider moves from the top of the loop to the bottom of the loop. These
drastic changes in accelerations are the cause of much of the thrill experienced by coaster
riders.
• The only forces exerted upon the riders are the force of gravity and the normal force (the force
of the seat pushing up on the rider). The force of gravity is at all times directed downwards and
the normal force is at all times directed perpendicular to the seat of the car.

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• For an object to move along a circular path at a constant speed, there must be a net inward
force acting upon the rider. This is commonly referred to as the centripetal force requirement.
The motion through a coaster loop isn't precisely an example of moving in a circle at constant
speed since the loop is neither circular not the speed constant. Nonetheless, because of the
similarity of the motion along the loop's path to uniform circular motion, principles of
uniform circular motion can be applied to the rider. The net force acting upon the rider has an
inwards direction (towards the center of the circle). Since the net force is the vector sum of
all the forces, the head-to-tail addition of the normal force and the gravity force should sum
to a resultant force which points inward.

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• Energy Changes
The energy changes in a roller coaster involve changing potential energy to kinetic energy.
Potential energy is high when the coaster is at the top of a hill. When the roller coaster goes
down the hill that potential energy changes into kinetic energy.

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 Source
• https://www.explainthatstuff.com/rollercoaste
rs.html
• https://www.learner.org/wp-content/interacti
ve/parkphysics/glossary.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Thrill_Drag
ster

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