Roller Coaster Designer
The mathematics and physics of roller coaster design help ensure a safe ride, despite the human errors and mechanical malfunctions that sometimes cause problems.
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Roller Coasters
Most everyone can remember the first time they rode a roller coaster, and how it felt. People either love to ride roller coasters or do not, but very few are indifferent to the bone-ra...
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Roller Coaster
Roller coasters can be thrilling, inane, amusing, daunting, frivolous, and just plain awesome. For millions world wide the offer an addiction that nothing else can top. Roller coa...
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A roller coaster car passed a platform and entered a second lap
due to a mechanical malfunction Saturday at an amusement park in
Suita, Osaka Prefecture, where a fatal derailment accident inv...
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Metal fatigue is suspected of causing the rupture of the wheel
axle of a roller-coaster car that derailed at an amusement park
outside Osaka last Saturday, killing a woman and injuring 19 oth...
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Annual maintenance checks of play facilities at the Expoland
amusement park outside Osaka have continuously since 2004 given the
highest rating of A to all items on a checklist for the roller...
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Ian Culhane won $10,000 for designing a 7-foot-tall toy roller coaster. Not bad for a 10-year-old."It's money for college," the aspiring engineer from Olympia, Wash., said Thursday about the saving...
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On a tranquil Coney Island morning, fragrant with salt water and last night's cotton candy, the silence is interrupted by the rapid-fire bursts of twin hammers beating against steel track.Tucked 85...
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Shanghai (dpa) - China's stock exchanges are baffling their
investors. Tuesday's roller coaster ride exceeded even the strongest
fluctuations.
One day after t...
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Frankfurt (dpa) - After paring back earlier losses, European
stocks stumbled again in late trading Wednesday after Wall Street
retreated from a positive opening.
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Police investigators have detected a crack on the wheel axle
shaft of a roller coaster which had been operated alternately with
the roller coaster involved in a fatal accident at Osaka's Expo...
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