Theme parks

Earlier on in the summer I went to Southend adventure park and went on lots of lovely rides where I could turn into an ultra geek and describe how the forces worked on various rides. They were exactly like the diagrams in my textbook and I sat on the swing rides imagining the horizontal component of the tension keeping me in my centripetal motion.

Then yesterday I went to Thorpe park and the rides were so scary I couldn't bare to think of the physics! The sharp turns, fast accelerations creating huge g-forces and upsidedown bits and loop-de-loops were sometimes too much! I understood why I felt dizzy and my legs were wobbly and why my elbows hurt from banging into the sides but not why it was an instinct that screaming would help the situation... Or why it was so enjoyable... My textbook missed those bits out!

I can't seem to find an old Alevel post where I explain ridesm, they only seem to talk about penguins...