Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Amusement Park Physics Project

Project Summary

  • This project was super fun and educational at the same time.
  • The skills I learned during this project were how to better understand what I research and how to analyze my data thouroughlly.
  • The content I learned during this project was how physics plays an important part in building roller coasters, what "g"s are, and the reason behind the funny feeling you get going down hill on an amusement ride.

Evidence of Learning

Work Sample 1 -

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Roller_Coaster_Presentaion_finished.ppt (1.09 MB)
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I included this work sample because it's the presentation we did in front of our class explaining what we learned and what we found out through the research we did.

Work Sample 2 -

Data_graph

I included this work sample because it shows the data we collected.

Reflection

  • My strengths in this project were to have a better understanding of what I researched.
  • My weaknesses in this project were not being able to explain myself as well as I could during the presentation.
  • If I had this project to do over I would do more than three trials so the data would be more valid.