Due Dates:
____________ : Turn in your roller coaster with your
answers.
____________ : Turn in your roller coaster with your answers
and the other groups answers to your roller coaster -No late papers
accepted. This counts as a lab grade.
You may work in groups of 2.
Your roller coaster must be neatly drawn in pen. It must take up no
more than one 8.5 X 11 inch piece of paper.
Your questions are to be written on a separate sheet of paper.
Your solutions are to be on a third sheet -SHOW ALL WORK OR LOOSE 8
POINTS.
Do not give your answers to the group checking your work. After they
have finished checking your work compare answers and decide any
discrepancies among yourselves.
Your (group's) roller coaster's points depend on if your roller
coaster includes:
Work calculated from Fd equation
-with at least 1 question about it. (7 pts)
Work calculated from a graph of
force vs distance-with at least 1 question about it. The graph cannot
be a horizontal line. (7 pts)
A loop-the-loop -with at least 2
questions about it. (7 pts)
A spring -with at least 1 question
about it. (7 pts)
A hill -with at least 2 question
about it. (7 pts)
At Least one of the above questions
must be about the g's felt by the rider. (7 pts)

The rider experiences g's no higher
than 10 g's at every hill top and dip. (7 pts)
Calculated the solutions to someone
else's lab. (25% the lab grade.)
Whose lab did you grade?

Percentage of your lab's questions
that were correct as graded by another group.
___________ (20 pts maximum)
Total number of points checked above: 
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