Scores?

[hippo9]

bruh thats just against the rules lol

Technically, the rules make a clear distinction between the roller coaster itself (which cannot have magnets) and the vehicle (of which little is said except in a FAQ that says it must be spherical). Like I said, I asked a question about this specifically months ago, but no response. Not going to risk it at State unless an FAQ comes back and says OK.

How would that be useful? If you have it "levitating" would they even consider that track? Also didn't they at that no force other than gravitational potential energy be used?

[shrewdPanther46]

bruh thats just against the rules lol

Technically, the rules make a clear distinction between the roller coaster itself (which cannot have magnets) and the vehicle (of which little is said except in a FAQ that says it must be spherical). Like I said, I asked a question about this specifically months ago, but no response. Not going to risk it at State unless an FAQ comes back and says OK.

How would that be useful? If you have it "levitating" would they even consider that track? Also didn't they at that no force other than gravitational potential energy be used?

I said that with respect to what Ivan was joking about. I feel that your idea makes good sense.
Hippo9, ur misunderstanding the concept lol

[hippo9]

Technically, the rules make a clear distinction between the roller coaster itself (which cannot have magnets) and the vehicle (of which little is said except in a FAQ that says it must be spherical). Like I said, I asked a question about this specifically months ago, but no response. Not going to risk it at State unless an FAQ comes back and says OK.

How would that be useful? If you have it "levitating" would they even consider that track? Also didn't they at that no force other than gravitational potential energy be used?

I said that with respect to what Ivan was joking about. I feel that your idea makes good sense.
Hippo9, ur misunderstanding the concept lol

Yeah probably
I was thinking something like maglev

[Crtomir]

How would that be useful? If you have it "levitating" would they even consider that track? Also didn't they at that no force other than gravitational potential energy be used?

I said that with respect to what Ivan was joking about. I feel that your idea makes good sense.
Hippo9, ur misunderstanding the concept lol

Yeah probably
I was thinking something like maglev

Yeah, it's not levitating. It's slowing the ball down, pretty drastically. We tried it. Very fun trick.

[smansman]

We won IL state yesterday with 501 points. Target time 38 sec, ran 40 sec. Alas, end of the road for our device. Good luck to Daniel Wright and Science & Arts Academy at Nationals!

[hippo9]

We won IL state yesterday with 501 points. Target time 38 sec, ran 40 sec. Alas, end of the road for our device. Good luck to Daniel Wright and Science & Arts Academy at Nationals!

Nice job! I'm assuming you guys used all 80 cm of height, right?

[smansman]

We won IL state yesterday with 501 points. Target time 38 sec, ran 40 sec. Alas, end of the road for our device. Good luck to Daniel Wright and Science & Arts Academy at Nationals!

Nice job! I'm assuming you guys used all 80 cm of height, right?

78 cm. Always want a safety margin.

[hippo9]

We won IL state yesterday with 501 points. Target time 38 sec, ran 40 sec. Alas, end of the road for our device. Good luck to Daniel Wright and Science & Arts Academy at Nationals!

Nice job! I'm assuming you guys used all 80 cm of height, right?

78 cm. Always want a safety margin.

Yeah mine was 77 just be safe with the ES measuring.

[IvanGe]

talking about safe margins haha mine was 80 cm on the dot

[Crtomir]

We won IL state yesterday with 501 points. Target time 38 sec, ran 40 sec. Alas, end of the road for our device. Good luck to Daniel Wright and Science & Arts Academy at Nationals!

Wow! Impressive!!! That's got to be the best score in the Nation so far.