Build Your Own Roller Coaster

Constructing the model of a roller coaster can be a fun pastime or even a good idea for a school / college science fair project. Moreover even educationalists can make use of the roller coaster to explain the physics linked to how the machine operates to their pupils and thereby, encourage them to study structural integrity, design and other such aspects of objects. Since the uses of building / designing a roller coaster could be many and varied, let’s move on and explore the process of doing so.       

 

 

This type of roller coaster may actually be made to run through their tracks. You can use motors to power genuine lift hills and other apparatuses.

 

These are comprehensive models, which could be ditto recreations of already existing popular rides or an innovative new design (one that’s your own brainchild). These stationary models do not move on tracks and are usually used as decorative pieces.  

 

There are enjoyable online games that give you the chance to assemble track segments, amend ride properties and even manipulate the model so see how it affects its characteristics.

The homemade roller coaster model is the classic one used in the science fairs. Though usually built out of popsicle sticks and marbles, one can feel free to use any other type of material as well.

 

This one is a hazardous kind of real roller coaster to construct and therefore, requires to be tried by qualified professionals who have in-depth idea about the general construction and the essential engineering principles to construct a safe ride.