How to Design the World's Best Roller Coaster in 10 Simple Steps

Imagine being given a sackful of money and being told to build a roller coaster. You’d definitely want it to be the best roller coaster in the world. But how do you go about designing that? Using your imagination and some smart research, you’ll see how to create a dream design. Then you’ll refine it, and in 10 simple steps, make changes and improvements based on real-world considerations and calculations, to turn it into a design fit to compete with the world’s best.

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Subject(s)Engineering
Author(s)Paul Mason
Age7-11, 11-14
Published2019
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Shelf reference609 MAS
ISN/ISBN978-0750291927
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/xfwuv

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