FossWeb Variables Module:

Amusement Park Physics

What variables and laws of physics affect amusement park ride design? At this website, you'll find out by designing your own roller coaster and experimenting with bumper car collisions.

Cannon Investigation

Experiment with variables that affect the trajectory of a cannonball. You can vary the cannon angle, speed of the cannonball, wind factors, and more. After you shoot off the cannon, you can see the path the cannonball took on a background graph.

To Fly Is Everything!

This site is the Virtual Museum of the Invention of the Airplane. It includes a restoration of the movie of the Wright Brothers first flight, plus a interactive simulation of the 1903 Wright Brothers flight, 3-D models of early aircraft, a photo and movie gallery, a digital library, a plane database, and an Inventors Gallery.