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Design a roller coaster and then climb aboard and see how it rides! You can watch the ride from right above the car itself or, if your stomach isn't up to that, from a fixed position away from the track. You'll get a continuous readout of the coaster speed and acceleration.

http://sideshow.questacon.edu.au/maketracks.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Applications of Newton's Laws - Work and Energy	- Middle School - High School - Elementary School - Informal Education	- Instructional Material = Activity

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	This resource was featured by the Physics To Go collection from August 1, 2004 until September 1, 2004. View the feature here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2004 Questacon
Keywords:: roller coaster, virtual coaster
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created January 20, 2004 by Kyle Whipple
Record Updated:: February 8, 2009 by Lyle Barbato

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=818">Questacon. Make Tracks. Canberra: Questacon, 2004.</a>

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(Questacon, Canberra, 2004), WWW Document, (http://sideshow.questacon.edu.au/maketracks.html).

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Make Tracks (Questacon, Canberra, 2004), <http://sideshow.questacon.edu.au/maketracks.html>.

APA Format

Make Tracks. (2004). Retrieved May 1, 2025, from Questacon: http://sideshow.questacon.edu.au/maketracks.html

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Questacon. Make Tracks. Canberra: Questacon, 2004. http://sideshow.questacon.edu.au/maketracks.html (accessed 1 May 2025).

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Make Tracks. Canberra: Questacon, 2004. 1 May 2025 <http://sideshow.questacon.edu.au/maketracks.html>.

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@misc{ Title = {Make Tracks}, Publisher = {Questacon}, Volume = {2025}, Number = {1 May 2025}, Year = {2004} }

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%0 Electronic Source %D 2004 %T Make Tracks %I Questacon %V 2025 %N 1 May 2025 %9 application/shockwave %U http://sideshow.questacon.edu.au/maketracks.html

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