Eighth-grade engineering students uses physics principles to build marble roller coasters at Pleasantville Middle School in Westchester County, NY.

Roller coasters are fun, fast, and are a great example of physics in action. Your challenge is to build a roller coaster out of materials you can find in your home. Cut a piece of printer or ...

Math and science are a scream for the 12 students in the course “Roller Coasters: Theory, Design, and Properties,” at Bates College, in Lewiston, Me. The students study roller-coaster design to learn ...

POOLER — If you are not familiar with the acronym STEM, you should be. For many years the intellectual community has been insisting the future of our society, even our planet, will be dependent on our ...

With nothing but paper, tape, and a marble as a test vehicle, engineering students at Tyler ISD’s Career and Technology Center put their designs to the test, building roller coasters filled with loops ...

Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate: gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Gravitational potential energy is the energy an object has stored because of its mass and its ...

Wyoming Seminary’s Alvin Tul, grade 9, watched the elaborate little wooden car chug a yard or so before stopping well short of its goal. “I don’t know what went wrong,” he conceded, noting he was a ...