Did you know that roller coasters don't have engines? That’s because they don’t need them! Gravity is the force that pulls things to the ground. Roller coasters rely on gravity to take them to ...

The roller coaster has its origins in St. Petersburg ... Miller himself pushed the envelope of physics with his Jack Rabbit at Kennywood Park, which dove precipitously into a gully, and his ...

A lot of people look at roller coasters as an exciting example of physics, like potential energy versus kinetic energy or inertia, and rightly so. [Jared] looks at them and wonders about the controls.

The physics simulation also provided the inputs ... The end result looks rather slow compared to other model roller coasters, but actually feels realistic if you imagine yourself inside the ...