🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 26 Feb 1995, Steve Hamersky wrote:

>   You may wish to contact an amusement park.  I know World
> of Fun in Kansas City, 4545 Worlds of Fun Ave, Kansas City,
> MO 64161 has what they call "School Days" which includes
> a physics day (April 22 this year).  They may have some
> additional ideas they could send you.
> Steve

These days most every amusement park has special programs for physics
classes. The Great America Parks do. Hershey Park in PA does, and has a
nice booklet of suggested experiments with technical data on a number of
rides. Just write to the park nearest to you, or call them. If they
haven't done this before they might well like to start, with your help. I
know one smaller, family owned park, which let one of our classes in a
couple of hours before the gates opened to the public, and told all ride
operators to give all cooperation, even to unusual requests, if they were
safe. One poor fellow took a videotape recorder onto the 'Merry Mixer'.
When he got off he realized that not only was he staggering from diziness
and trying to hold onto the mass of the camera and recorder, but the
forces had pushed the tape off its track and he'd recorded nothing. He
said, "Oh, no, I'm going to have to get on that thing again." The
accelerations are large on some rides, and taking cameras on them is
usually not allowed. But they did allow it for us, giving us proper
warning, and making clear that they were not responsible for that
equipment. Fair warning to all tempted to do this.

        -- Donald