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32 pages
colour illustrations.
Contents: Having fun -- High speed thrills -- The fastest roller coaster -- What is velocity? -- How roller coasters go fast -- Going gaster -- Let's get going -- Bumper cars -- Wheels and tracks -- Slowing down -- Smoothly does it -- Cutting through the air -- Stopping.
Summary: Discover how amusement parks use science to create thrilling white-knuckle rides. Hold on to your seat and find out how: forces, mass, inertia, speed and velocity, kinetic energy, friction, wheels and tracks and more - are used to take your breath away.
Amusement park science.