How To Build A Roller Coaster

The next time you look up at a roller coaster you should notice where the biggest hill is, most of the time the roller coaster engineers, people who build

roller coasters, will put the biggest hill at the start of the ride. Simply because the cart needs to have enough potential energy for you to finish the ride. At the start of the roller coaster chains,the chains are mechanical energy, are used to pull the carts up a hill, or ascend the hill. At the top of the hill the chains release the carts and gravitational energy,or gravity, descends the carts to the earth’s surface. As the wheels run against the track friction occurs,this causes some thermal energy. The carts are moving most of the time, so it has kinetic energy, energy in