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This activity from Annenberg Learner Interactives helps students understand how physics laws affect the design of roller coasters, bumper cars, carousels, free fall rides, and pendulum rides. A highlight of the site is the opportunity to design a roller coaster and experiment with bumper car collisions.

Annenberg Learner develops multimedia resources designed to help teachers integrate technology in the classroom and enhance student engagement. Resources include an extensive set of educational videos, interactive tutorials that supplement the videos, teacher workshops and courses, and distance learning.
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Classical Mechanics
- Applications of Newton's Laws
- Newton's Third Law
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Informal Education
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Interactive Simulation
= Tutorial
- Reference Material
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
Appropriate Courses Categories Ratings
- Physical Science
- Physics First
- Conceptual Physics
- Algebra-based Physics
- AP Physics
- Lesson Plan
- Activity
- Laboratory
- New teachers
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Keywords:
Amusement Park Physics, amusement park rides, collisions, roller coaster
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Date Metadata Instance was created July 30, 2003 by Kyle Whipple
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August 18, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
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Annenberg Foundation, , WWW Document, (https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-amusement-park-physics/).
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Annenberg Foundation, Annenberg Learner Interactives: Amusement Park Physics, <https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-amusement-park-physics/>.
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Annenberg Foundation. (n.d.). Annenberg Learner Interactives: Amusement Park Physics. Retrieved April 26, 2025, from https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-amusement-park-physics/
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Annenberg Foundation. Annenberg Learner Interactives: Amusement Park Physics. https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-amusement-park-physics/ (accessed 26 April 2025).
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Annenberg Foundation. Annenberg Learner Interactives: Amusement Park Physics. 26 Apr. 2025 <https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-amusement-park-physics/>.
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