Recent content by CynthiaC

I have never seen things in a normal way. I'm a romantic and very curious, so you would think science would be right up my alley. But maybe physics just sounds too scary? I love to wonder how/why something works until my brain hurts ... but then I always stop. I guess for me there's always been...

This been really fun and helpful. Thank you to everyone who helped. This kind of thing is way out of my comfort zone, so it's great to find people so willing to help. :) And seriously, you've made me super curious about your little Physics forum world here ... that's kind of scary. :o

Okay. Is there a private messaging system on this forum so I can get your email addresses? Or I suppose I could just paste it into the private message. That makes more sense now that I think about it ...

Yay thanks, Doc Al. Looks like we are finding some of the same articles as I certainly read over that last one already. :) This should definitely be enough to keep me going. (Enough potential energy?) Any takers on reading it over when I'm done? It'll only be 500-700 words. No biggie.

Yes, that looks good. Thank you. :) I think it's coming along pretty well. I've been reading a few different pages to better understand the whole concept. Would you be interested in reading over the article when I finished to point out any obvious scientific errors should there be any...

Hi berkeman, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have a basic understanding. I think I comprehend most of what the "mechanics" section of that article says. While I'm trying to avoid Wikipedia as a source of information, I hadn't thought about other types of roller coasters (besides the ones with a...

Roller Coasters--help a writer out? I'm a freelance writer working on an article about how roller coasters work. It's to be a fairly short article for a children's Web site, so I don't need massive amounts of information (and I am doing research of my own as well), but I thought it might be fun...