Our company is a company that creates roller coasters. We decided to make a new roller coaster called The Blue Cat Screamer. First, we designed it on a blue piece of construction paper, then we converted our ideas to a simulator. We tried our idea many, many, MANY times. In all, we had exactly 22 failures( talk about epic failures!). Each time, we had to modify the roller coaster when we made a mistake. Finally, at the very end of class, we had a SUCCESS. We learned about kinetic energy, potential energy, and centripetal force. We used this knowledge to design our roller coaster. Of coarse, it did not work the first time we tried it, but eventually we got it done right. The next thing we did was we built our roller coaster using foam track, marbles ( our 'car'), tape, and construction paper (for friction). We also had failures then, but we succeeded yet again.
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