Pendulum rides, rotations and the Coriolis effect
(2018) In Physics Education 53(4).- Abstract
An amusement park is full of examples that can be made into challenging problems for students, combining mathematical modelling with video analysis, as well as measurements in the rides. Traditional amusement ride related textbook problems include free-fall, circular motion, pendula and energy conservation in roller coasters, where the moving bodies are typically considered point-like. However, an amusement park can offer many more examples that are useful in physics and engineering education, many of them with strong mathematical content. This paper analyses forces on riders in a large rotating pendulum ride, where the Coriolis effect is sufficiently large to be visible in accelerometer data from the rides and leads to different ride... (More)
An amusement park is full of examples that can be made into challenging problems for students, combining mathematical modelling with video analysis, as well as measurements in the rides. Traditional amusement ride related textbook problems include free-fall, circular motion, pendula and energy conservation in roller coasters, where the moving bodies are typically considered point-like. However, an amusement park can offer many more examples that are useful in physics and engineering education, many of them with strong mathematical content. This paper analyses forces on riders in a large rotating pendulum ride, where the Coriolis effect is sufficiently large to be visible in accelerometer data from the rides and leads to different ride experiences in different positions.
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- author
- Pendrill, Ann Marie LU and Modig, Conny
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-07-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Physics Education
- volume
- 53
- issue
- 4
- article number
- 045017
- publisher
- IOP Publishing
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85048776500
- ISSN
- 0031-9120
- DOI
- 10.1088/1361-6552/aac3cb
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 9feb5f1c-c1eb-4911-9e68-b3f2b113dade
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- 2018-07-04 13:02:41
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- 2022-04-25 08:13:17
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