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This month’s question is, how have you used gravity or roller coaster design elements at work or in DIY projects?
My son really enjoys playing with the hot wheels track and learning that for cars to successfully complete the loop, they must be going fast enough.
Not as yet, but my first maybe soon enough.
I’ve used some loops in a project to capture entrained particles in an air stream and get them to drop out before the exit of the hose.
I haven’t used/worked with that design element, although hearing what people have to say about it is interesting and thanks for getting this topic, it’s really interesting.
Hot wheels tracks and attempting to make them as long and as complicated as possible
Always helpful topics. Thanks Gavin
I haven’t but would love to work with gravity.
I listened to a engineer speak at our elementary school for career day who designed roller-coasters … Inspired me to become an engineer!
Always try to utilize gravity flow instead of pumped systems to save costs.
When doing house renovations we added a new wall in an open space and used a home made plumb bob connected to the ceiling joist to properly level our wall and ensure we hit both the ceiling joist and floor joist when securing the wall.
I’m a rail designer and up/down vertical slope is considered when designing alignment. All fun like a roller coaster but not as fast!
Interesting & helpful topics. Thank you Gavin.
We often use gravity to our advantage on our packaging lines to passively arrange/orient individual packages or cases on our conveyors so they can be packed and palletized efficiently.
In school we learnt about Steam-Assited Gravity Drainage (SAGD). It used in heavy oil production. Heat up the reservoir and let gravity do the magic.
Haven’t worked on any kind of roller coaster project, but love to ride roller coasters
We used the gravity design concept on a fun project called Rube Goldberg in our Mechanical Engineering Orientation back in university.