...Roller coasters have come a long way from ¨monumental ice slides¨ in the 16th and 17th century to an actual steel cart with wheels today.As we go on we will discuss the history of roller coasters,the physics behind them,and the authors experience in the making of its own roller coaster. The history of a roller coaster goes back a long time to the 16th and 17th century.The first roller coaster started as a ice slides which eventually developed in to rolling carts.Then as time went two of the first roller coasters were created,one being in the Russian MT of Belleville created as ¨a train attached to a track¨ and second the first American made roller coaster which was originally made to send coal but was then remade into a more scenic tour.It was called ¨Mauch Chunk Switchway railway.¨As time went soon the roller coasters were made into wood an so on developed. Roller coaster use two main things in order to finish the ride,known as inertia and gravity.As the roller coaster goes up the track and eventually gets to the peak of the roller coaster gravity soon pulls it down the track it causes the roller coaster to change its energy.The roller coaster soon goes from having potential energy to kinetic.But since...
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...When roller coaster start to elevate up it uses an engine. Once it reaches the top it stops and turns to potential energy, because it is still and getting ready to fall. When the coaster falls it turns into kinetic energy, because it’s in motion. From the on the coaster doesn’t need an engine. The gravity takes it down the coaster in a large amount of speed. Then the speed that can go up to like 60 mph will keep the roller coaster going even if it is going up a hill or down the speed is strong enough to take it all the way. The energy will stay for a while, but roller coasters aren’t too long. You may wonder why roller coasters aren’t too long because the energy will start to fade and the roller coaster will slow down and eventually come to...
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...You can imagine the scene as teenagers screamed and taunted one as the other cart pulled ahead through series of dips and curves on the figure eight shaped course. Apparently however the restrains didn't do much good. In 1917 a man lost his hat when the train went up a steep hill and the man fell out of the train and landed on the track and got hit by the cart and was dragged 35 feet and died because all his bones in his body was broken. Research LaMarcus Adna Thompson invented the roller coaster in Jan 20th 1885 which they were made out of wood. The reason the roller coaster works is because the gravitational,friction,potential energy, and kinetic energy. The conversion between potential energy to kinetic energy is what drives the roller coaster and all kinetic energy you need for the ride is present once the...
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...Every day individuals encounter life experiences not realizing the scientific nature of physics being involved. Physics exists all around weather one is cognizant or not. For example, roller coasters have become quite the attraction at major theme parks all across the globe and operate due to physics. Many men, women, boys and girls want to experience the thrill of zero gravity, upside down loops, twists and curls at extremely fast speeds. However, there is another portion of the population who does not want to go anywhere and would rather speculate from the ground. In either instance, the detailed study of physical science makes it all possible. Even though the physics of a roller coaster are intricate due to the composition of various forms of energy, accelerometers and gravitational forces; their makeup can be quite intriguing. The study of physics dates back several years and can be attributed to different individuals. Knowing the history of physics will help understand general concepts and how they can be applied to creating objects such as the roller coaster. The lessons initiated from the historical founders of physics are vitally important to apprehend the ideas of today and more importantly the direction for how they will shape tomorrow (Garcia et al., 2010). Copernicus, a prominent attributer, initially suggested that the planets revolve around the sun and the Earth rotates on an axis (Britannica Biographies, 2011). The idea will later assist Galileo, another...
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...uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-269632) since 2002 travel and tourisms contribution to the GDP of the United Kingdom has decreased by approximately GBP10bn, however is predicted to increase to about GBP15bn by 2022. 30.8 million overseas visitors came to the United Kingdom in 2011 and spent a total of 18 billion pounds. The country is the 7th most popular tourist destination in 2011 and 7th in the international tourism earnings league. The top three home countries of tourists were France, Germany and the USA last year yet in terms of visitor spending’s USA took first, Germany second and France coming in third. The top five tourist attractions in the UK are the British Museum, the National gallery, Tate Modem, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum....
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...People also see Vegas as Sin City and a place where people go to gamble. Vegas do not have a good image to a lot of people. Even though they are trying to turn it around and create a place for families they will never lose that Sin City label. * Company Analysis Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) fielded several national ad campaigns. Tourism is Las Vegas’s biggest industry, and LVCVA is charged with maintaining the city’s brand image and keeping visitors coming to one of the world’s most famous cities. As the 1900s rolled around, many Las Vegas officials felt that the town needed to broaden its target audience. So they set out to appeal to families. Some of the biggest casinos on the Las Vegas strip built roller coasters and other thrill rides, world-class water parks, and family-friendly shows like Treasure Island’s live-action swashbuckler spectacle, visible to everyone passing by on the street. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, dealt Las Vegas tourism one of its worst blows ever. Declining tourism led to 15 000 lost jobs. The LVCVA engineered an image of Las Vegas as a luxury destination oozing with excess and indulgence. The theme parks were replaced by five-star resorts, high-rise condos, expansive shopping mall filled with the world’s top luxury brands, and restaurants bearing names of world-renowned chefs. A new breed of expensive stage shows for adult audiences replaced family-friendly entertainment. This change of strategy worked...
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...Writing Assignment 3: Research-Supported Essay Introduction In the last decennia, there have been substantial rise in the community of researchers reviewing about videogames and computer. The introduction of videogames has become one of the chief medium of entertainment for youths. According to researchers, the educational potential of videogames has created a lot of attention among the people. Research illustrations that the application of videogames can empower students to control their process of learning, situate learners in a thoughtful setting, promote constructive attitude towards the course of learning , promote inquiry-based and integrate multiple topics to confront learners. The emergence of entertainment-based cultural background increased the subject of taking serious action towards the implementation of videogames into classroom. Videogames have the capacity to enrich the learning process and encourage student commitment. This paper examines the integration of videogames into classrooms, as it can benefit students to improve cognitive skills and reach curricular education goals. Thesis statement “The integration of videogames into classroom learning process can allow students to reach curricular learning goals and develop critical thinking skills” Historical background The rapid development of gaming industry is on its way to outdistancing television and film industry. A movement was started in the year 2003 to use videogames in training and teaching process...
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...INDUSTRY ANALYSIS OF AMUSEMENT PARKS HAN CHOE BRIAN CHEN MARCY LEON RUBEN BUGARIN J.D. PERALTA INTRODUCTION The history of theme parks stems from European pleasure gardens in the 16th century. Pleasure gardens were a place of recreation where the guests could also enjoy beautiful landscapes. These types of venues led to expositions and fairs in the United States. These large venues then paved the way to amusement parks, which then led to the creation of a different type of amusement park called a theme park. Theme parks are in fact amusement parks that are built and designed to portray specific themes or stories. The first of its kind was Santa Claus Land in Indiana, which is now known as Holiday World. However, it was the Walt Disney Company that utilized the theme park idea and made it popular. Today, the words amusement parks and theme parks are used synonymously. Theme parks provide attractions to their guests. These attractions are roller coasters, water rides, live shows, carnival type games, arcades, and merchandise stores. Dining is also provided to guests and come in the form of push carts, providing fast food, to seated indoor restaurants. Some theme parks offer tours as well as a resort to accommodate overnight guests. Large theme parks can also provide shoppertainment centers outside of their park walls. These shoppertainment centers are available for non park attendees as well. Shoppertainment centers offer retail stores, restaurants, and movie...
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...Approval Sheet Acknowledgement 1 I. Company Profile History 2 Mission, Vision, Goal, Objective, Philosophy of the company 12 Logo and Location 13 Organizational Structure 14 II. Trainings and Activities Management Staff 16 Schedule and Assigned Tasks 17 Special Assignments 24 III. Problems Met Statement of the Problems 27 Alternative Course of Action 28 Recommendation 29 IV. Insight Learned and Implications 30 V. Certification 31 VI. Evaluation 35 VII. Documentation 37 VIII. Curriculum Vitae 45 A C K N O W L E D G M E N T I take immense pleasure in thanking the following people who became part of my journey for this entire college life. First and foremost, to my beloved professors who have been great instrument for learning and shared wisdom. Also, to our beloved Dean Yolanda Q. Sabas for guiding us through our up and down moments. . I would also like to express my heartfelt thanks to my beloved parents for their blessings, my friends and classmates for their help and wishes for the successful completion of this report. I would also like to thank the people who help me build myself when I was in United States of America. They served as an inspiration as well as my family; I owe them all the great experiences and treasured...
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...The North Carolina Annual State Fair Trisha Wrenn Shelley DeVry University Contents Page. . History . Accidents and incidents . Exhibits . Antique Farm Machinery .Cultivate a Career Tent . Field of Dreams . Flower and Garden Show .Got to Be NC Agriculture Tent . Heritage Circle .State Fair Ark . Village of Yesteryear .Competitions . General Exhibits . Livestock .Poultry & Rabbits . Family & Consumer Sciences . Special Exhibits .Folk Festival . Horses . Entertainment .Concerts in Dorton Arena .Fireworks . Free Entertainment . Grandstand Shows . Kiddieland Fun Park . Carnival Rides and Games . Roller coasters The North Carolina state fair began in October of 1853, and lasted four days, with a total of four thousand people who attended. Today the fair lasts eleven days with over eight hundred thousand people who attended. The fair is held in our state capitol of Raleigh, North Carolina. The purpose of the state fair is to showcase and promote the states agriculture arts, crafts and culture through the annual agriculture fair. The State Fair’s aim is to educate all North Carolinians about the importance of agriculture to our heritage and our economy. The exhibits are antique farm machinery, cultivate a career tent, flower and garden show, heritage circle, and state fair ARK and the village of yesteryear. The completions include general exhibits such as livestock, poultry, rabbits, family...
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...Exam content- Grade 10 Exam content- Grade 10 Al Nasha’a Al Saleh School Al Nasha’a Al Saleh School Subject | Exam Content | Maths | Grade 10Chapter 9 (Radical Functions)-Inverse Variations. -The Reciprocal Function Family.-Rational Functions and Their Graphs.-Rational Expressions.-Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions.-Solving Rational Equations. Chapter 11( Sequences and Series)-Mathematical Patterns.-Arithmetic Sequences.-Geometric Sequences.-Arithmetic Series.-Geometric Series | English | Reading | Writing | Grammar | Vocabulary | -India-what should you do to help a friend?-sports-The importance of rules-future jobs | -how life will be like in the future-a conversation with a teacher about how to help a friend who is doing something wrong-The Effects Of Television-how to stop violence in sports-a set of school rules-jobs for the future | -future perfect-present perfect and past simple-the present continuous tense -first and second conditional | -idioms-phrasal verbs | GIRLS:Grade 9B and 10BVocabulary WordsReading Comprehension: Author’s PurposeUnderstand irregular verbsBe able to answer essay questions about the stories your group read. Understand the characters, setting conflict, and summary of each story. | Physics | Account for and represent energy into and out of systems using energy transfer diagrams.Explain instances of energy transfer by waves and objects in everyday activities (e.g., why the ground gets warm during the day, how you hear...
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...would draw a personal financial market roadmap to figure out my goals and risk tolerance and evaluate my comfort zone in taking risk. However, as I have 1 millions dollars (money paper) to invest, so I have intention to buy high beta stocks with high risk. In this case, I will choose the stock with beta above 1 (riskier than the market). Before you buy stock in a company, you need to do a little light – reading and doing research. Investing in stock without checking out the company beforehand is a recipe for disaster. In this case, I will do a research online like Yahoo Finance, MSN Money, Investor Guide and The Street to find the most volatile stocks with high risk and high return. Investing in volatile stocks is like riding a roller coaster. When the market is on a roll, taking on more risk in your portfolio can have big rewards, but you will have stomach to deal with potential losses. I chose to buy 2,000 shares of Netflix with a market price $91.84 and the beta is 1.32. Netflix is an amazing success story both in entertainment industry and stock investment. Within 3 years, the company stock price has been increasing from $20 a share to over $100 a shares. Investing in Netflix either I can get a lot of money return or lost a lot of money. I also research for most traded stock on Wall Street Survivor to see which popular investing company is. Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Ford Motor are most traded stock on market. Then I can narrow down the type of stocks and figure...
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...Entertainment ________________________________________ The theme park, as an experience design, differs from amusement parks in the critical design intent of its architects. Theme landscapes are developed to distill a glimpse of world /out of this world locations, not unlike a world's fair, at a single location. These entertainment complexes are familiar vacation territories for generations of the world's travel public, as theme parks are deliberately designed to be internationally-focused attractants. The successful dynamism of these landscapes designed for appeal and dependable itinerary offer assurances of what can be expected, with safety and value for the expense of time and money. Generally, themed landscapes perpetuate and promote folk history and cultural traditions, as these are exploited, yet celebrated, simultaneously. Perception of space in the themed environment, without apologies, is inauthentic, but never-the-less successful, and delightful moments for the viewer. Intentionally, architecture is manipulated in order to impart the necessary factors which will aid in promoting happiness by use of ironic realism. Despite pretentions, everyone enjoys themed experiences at some level. Ambivalent designers are not undermined by the pristine and ineffectual notions the design profession propagates on what characterizes good design. Rather, the successful destination architect gives social value and art to underappreciated human elements in architecture. Human experiences and...
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...The Ulysses Roller Coaster By Chris Webber (4034141) American Public University System July 10, 2015 HIST101: American History to 1877 Professor Gerlach What do George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower and Andrew Jackson all have in common? They were all war proven generals that later became president. Another name that can go on this list is General Ulysses Simpson Grant. Grant is considered one of the most important men for the Union during the Civil War and he rode that fame into the White House. His roller coaster life had many lows that would have crushed the average man, which made is highs even grander. This is story of Ulysses S. Grant, his early life, early military career, Mexican War, Civil War and finally his presidency. Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27th 1822 to the name of Hiram Ulysses Grant1. His father, Jesse Grant, was a tanner and mildly successful business man. Ulysses did not have the same knack for business or tanning as his father. As a matter of fact, he did not really have a knack for much of anything, other than horses. His small stature, poor family and lack of good business knowledge quickly made him the laughing stock of his community. He was known to have tried to haggle a deal to buy a colt. Instead of offering low, he offered his low price, middle price and high price all in the same offer. Needless to say the horses’ owner sold the colt for the highest price2. This lack of common business sense and the fact that Ulysses did not want...
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...fell 684 points, a 7.1% decline, setting a record for the biggest loss in exchange history for one trading day. At the close of trading that Friday, ending a week that saw the biggest losses in NYSE history, the Dow Jones was down almost 1,370 points, representing a loss of over 14%. The Standard and Poor's (S&P) index lost 11.6%. An estimated $1.4 trillion in value was lost in those five days of trading. Throughout the remainder of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gradually rose toward pre-September 11levels and closed at 10,022 on December 21,2001. Real GDP contracted in the first three months of 2001 by 2.7 percent, which was a surprisingly strong performance under the circumstances. The six-member panel at the National Bureau of Economics Research(NBER), which is considered the nation’s arbiter of U.S. business cycles, declared in November 2001 that a recession had begun in March and ended in November of that year, eight months after it had begun. Stock market plunges are widely reported headlines news. One result of these plunges is that many Americans feel poorer because of the threat to their life’s saving, In only a few hours, spectacular paper losses reduced the wealth that people are counting on to pay for homes, automobiles, college tuition , or retirement. Although not all U.S. households own stock, everyone fears a steep downhill ride on the Wall Street roller coaster. If a stock market crash leads to a recession, it would cause layoffs and cuts in profit...
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