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

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 ...

More than two dozen members of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland came to Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus Saturday to design and build miniature roller coasters out of cardboard boxes, ...

Mount Carmel Academy's physics classes participated in a roller coaster design challenge using the concepts of forces, motion and energy. The roller coaster needed to have a "thrill factor" to attract ...

DEVILLE — Advanced Placement physics students at Buckeye High School competed in a marble roller coaster competition Friday for their final grade. Students in the college-level class spent about two ...