How Rollercoasters Are Able To Move?

Have you ever wondered how roller coasters are able to move? Roller coasters don't have engines to make them move after the first hill. In order for the car to reach the top of that e hill, the car has to be pulled up by a rope or wire of some sort hooked to a motor. The roller coasters use energy instead of an engine to help the car move. Once the car has reached the top of the hill the car has built up potential energy. When the car is going down the hill the potential energy changes to kinetic energy which allows the car to accelerate. The cars accelerate due to gravity and they are slowed down by rolling friction. Gravity also slows them down as they go uphill.

Roller coasters are being used around the world right now.The first successful roller coaster was Coney Island. This roller coaster was earning $600 a day in 1884. After the first roller coaster was invented, many people started to create more roller coasters just like Coney Island. Many people also began to create new ways to make roller coasters.

The first roller coaster to go upside down was called Hades 360. It was the first of it’s kind. The

ride Hades 360 was created in 2005 and opened at the Mount Olympus theme park in Wisconsin. Many people were both excited and nervous to see if it was safe before it came out. It became very successful. Therefore, Mount Olympus is famous for creating the first roller coaster that went in a 360 motion.
The fastest roller coaster ever created is Formula Rossa which goes 149 miles per hour. The tallest roller coaster is located at Six Flags in Jackson, NJ and is called Kingda Ka. It is 456 feet tall.The steepest roller coaster ever made is Takabisha in Japan. The longest roller coaster is the steel dragon 2000 in Japan which is 8,133 feet long. There have been many roller coasters that have broken records, but the ones that I have listed are the most famous roller coaster records.
Did you know that roller coasters came from Russia in the 15th century? They originated from a gravity sled ride called Russian Mountains. This ride was made out of a ramp with an ice block for the car. There was hay used to cushion the rider and provide comfort. In 1984 the ride King Cobra was the first ride that allowed people to stand up. According to the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) there is a 1 in a million chance of you getting seriously injured on a roller coaster. However, there have been many accidents over the past couple of years.
In 2008 a kid jumped over two fences (despite multiple warning signs) to retrieve his lost hat, only to have his head knocked off by Batman’s bloodthirsty roller coaster at Six Flags.

Japan’s worst amusement park disaster was the Fujin Raijin II roller coaster. Cars were derailed and went flying off the tracks. A nineteen year old student was killed and nineteen others were injured. A broken axle caused the derailment. None of the rides axles had been replaced for fifteen years. The Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great America burst into flames. The wind whipped flames to over 2,000 degrees turning the interior into a raging inferno. Most of the people inside the castle escaped safely, but eight teenagers became trapped and died in the blaze. This accident holds the record for the worst number of deaths ever recorded for a roller coaster

accident.
The oldest operating roller coaster is 110 years old. It is located in Lakemont park in Pennsylvania. The world's first horror movie themed ride is called Saw, which is located at Thorpe Park. The tallest roller coaster in the UK is called Big One which is located in Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Nemesis is a multi-award winning roller coaster made by John Wardley. It has won awards for the most riders on a single train and has ranked high in Best Roller Coaster polls every year since opening. The fastest wooden roller coaster is El Toro which goes a speed of seventy miles per hour. The first steel roller coaster was the MatterHorn Bobsleds at Disneyland.