Roller Coaster Science
Build a loop-the-loop coaster and explore the centrifugal effect!
Explore:
- Centrifugal Effect
- Gravity, Motion & Forces
- Color-Changing Sign Art
About This Crate
The Smiler tips its passengers upside down 14 times before the ride ends. Photo by Maccer via Wikimedia (Public Domain)
- Did you know? The centrifugal effect helps clean your clothes! If you’ve looked through the window of a washing machine, you may have seen your socks whirling around. All that twirling is so that the centrifugal effect can push the dirty water out and down the drain.
- If you’ve ever made spin art, you’ve used the centrifugal effect! When you drizzle paint in the middle of the spinning disk, it gets pushed to the edges of the paper, creating dizzying designs.
- The loopiest roller coaster in the world is named the Smiler and has a total of 14 loops.
