I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Disease Zone. It has scientists studying the causes and processes of illness . Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
I’m not big on the really scary rides, because on the really bad ones I tend to get motion sickness which doesn’t make it a lot of fun. But science does definitely play a role in the design of rides; physics and materials science come to mind as two areas that would play a big impact. In the end, though, engineers will do most of the work, applying the science in a practical way.
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The scarier the better! I love rollercoasters and anything that gives you an adrenaline rush! I could spend the whole day in a rollercoaster ride!
The scariest rides I’ve been on are the ones that are really really steep! Like it’s almost vertical when you roll down….
Science for sure has a role to play in the design of any ride! You need materials that are strong enough so they won’t break ofcourse. And then there’s the g force effect. It’s a little complicated but it is the gravity you feel during acceleration compared to free-falling.
If you would fall from the sky, you would feel no g force. But….if you had a rocket strapped to your back pushing you down towards earth while you were falling, you would feel a g force! It’s the same force you feel when you’re in a plane at take-off or in a really fast car going from standing still to high speed.
In rollercoaster rides you also experience a g force. But they have to design the rides so the g force is not too great! Fighter jet pilots and people who fly to the moon experience a very high g force and even need to learn how to breath properly while they experience the g force, otherwise they can become unconscious. So if the g force in your rollercoaster rides was too high, we’d all be unconscious by the end of the ride….
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