For the duration of a roller coaster ride, there is no displacement, though there is distance. This is because roller coasters start and end at the same point, therefore there is no displacement, even though the length of skyrush is 1,130 meters long. From data on the hersheypark webpage, the maximum amount of positive g’s, which is the acceleration that one feels is about 5g’s, while the maximum negative g-force is -2g’s. At the end of the track there brakes the momentum of the cars is large do to the velocity in which the cars are coming in and their mass, therefore, a very large frictional force is used to brake the cars so that they are back at the start. During our experience the rails were wet causing the coefficient of friction to be decreased, thus causing our train to slightly overshoot the stopping
For the duration of a roller coaster ride, there is no displacement, though there is distance. This is because roller coasters start and end at the same point, therefore there is no displacement, even though the length of skyrush is 1,130 meters long. From data on the hersheypark webpage, the maximum amount of positive g’s, which is the acceleration that one feels is about 5g’s, while the maximum negative g-force is -2g’s. At the end of the track there brakes the momentum of the cars is large do to the velocity in which the cars are coming in and their mass, therefore, a very large frictional force is used to brake the cars so that they are back at the start. During our experience the rails were wet causing the coefficient of friction to be decreased, thus causing our train to slightly overshoot the stopping