4-7

__4-7 Jay Frederick__ Today we started the Design a Ride project. Our objective was to either work with a partner or by yourself to design a amusement park ride by using the things we learned in class. It is supposed to be realistic and very safe. We have to present it as if we are trying to get prospective parks to buy our ride. My partner was Drew and we decided to call our ride The Renegade. Now this ride has 4 letter spots in which we would explain things like the motion and KE & PE energies in that particular spot. The Renegade has 3 rows of seats (2 people per seat). We didnt much that much people on the ride at a time because we want everyone to experience a certain speed so they can get a complete thrill of the ride. If we added more seats of people, it will slow the ride down more so it won't go as fast. The points throughout the ride are perfectly examined so we can calculate the correct motion. These points are described below:

1st point: Starting point 2nd point: high point while going higher and higher in the beginning of ride 3rd point: High point in loop 4th point: Ending point

We planned to provide more description of the ride, and create the one page typed paper telling about the ride, over the weekend. We wanted to get most of the work done early so if we make a error and decide we need to change something, we can do it without any worries on time. 4 weeks is plenty of time to provide a good amusement park ride to local parks such as hershey park, dorney park, or possibly even six flags. After about 3 weeks, we have to make a roughly 3 minute powerpoint presentation of our ride. This is when we persuade investors to buy our ride. Also we have to have a techinical manual for engineers. Correct calculations about speed, accelerations, forces, energy, etc. are are needed to describe the ride at the four points of the ride.