Articles About Amusement Park Physics
(and some related work)
- Round and round in circles — shifting relevance structures as students discuss acceleration and forces during circular motion in a vertical plane, Ann-Marie Pendrill, Moa Eriksson, Urban Eriksson and Cedric Linder, 2023, European Journal of Physics 44 055008 (with video abstract)
- Accelerating a car from rest: friction, power and forces Andreas Isacsson et al 2023 Phys. Educ. 58 055005
- ChatGPT and the frustrated Socrates, Bor Gregorcic and Ann-Marie Pendrill 2023, Physics Education 58, 035021 (with video abstract)
- Serious physics on a playground swing, Pendrill A-M 2023, The Physics Teacher 61, 355 (with video abstract)
- Comment on Pendulum: the partial and global approach, Pendrill A-M 2023, Physics Education 58 018001
- Teacher interventions and student strategies for circular motion problems: a matrix representation, Pendrill A-M 2022 Phys. Educ. 57 035003
- Velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap and vibration: forces in our bodies during a roller coaster ride Pendrill A-M and Eager D 2020 Physics Education 55 (6) 055012
- Virtual reality, video screen shots and sensor data for a large drop tower ride Burt M and Pendrill A-M 2020 Physics Education 55 (5) 055017 (Svensk version av Video abstract)
- Gamified physics challenges for teachers and the public Vieyra R, Vieyra C, Pendrill A-M and Xu B 2020 Physics Education 55 (4) 045014
- Programming and its affordances for physics education: A social semiotic and variation theory approach to learning physics Svensson K, Eriksson U and Pendrill A-M 2020 Physical Review Physics Education Research 16 (1) 010127
- Forces in circular motion: discerning student strategies, Pendrill A-M 2020 Physics Education 55 045006
- Smartphones and Newton's first law in escalators and roller coasters, Pendrill A-M 2020 Physics Education 55 035016 (Svensk version, LMNT-nytt, okt 2020)
- Students making sense of motion in a vertical roller coaster loop, Pendrill A-M, Eriksson M, Eriksson U, Svensson K and Ouattara L 2019 Physics Education 54 065017
- Forces on hockey players: vectors, work, energy and angular momentum, Nässén N, Nässén H-Å, Eriksson U and Pendrill A-M 2019 European Journal of Physics 40 065005 (press release with short introduction video eng / sv)
- Up and down, light and heavy, fast and slow - but where? Eriksson U and Pendrill A-M 2019 Physics Education, 54 2 025017 (Svensk version: Kraft och rörelse för hela kroppen, LMNT-nytt 2020:1, p28-31)
- Training teachers to use playgrounds in physics teaching, Pendrill A-M 2019, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1286 012069 https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1286/1/012069
- Understanding acceleration: An interplay between different mathematics and physics representations Pendrill A-M 2019, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1286 012070 https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1286/1/012070
- Mathematics, measurement and experience of rotations around 3 axes, Pendrill A-M 2018 European Journal of Physics 40 15003 (Manuscript copy)
- Pendulum rides, rotation and the Coriolis effect, Pendrill A-M and Modig C 2018 Physics Education 53 4 045017 (video abstract + Swedish video abstract)
- Force, acceleration and velocity during trampoline jumps—a challenging assignment, Pendrill A-M and Ouattara L 2017, Physics Education 52, 6, 065021
- Free fall and the equivalence principle revisited, Pendrill A-M 2017, Physics Education 52, 6, 065002 (copy)
- Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives, Eager D, Pendrill A-M and Reistad N 2016, European Journal of physics, 37, 6, 065008
- Aerodynamics in the Amusement Park: interpreting sensor data for acceleration and rotation, Löfstrand M and Pendrill A-M, Physics Education 51(5) 055015 2016 (open access) with video abstract
- Roller coaster loop shapes revisited, Pendrill A-M Physics Education, 51 (3) 030106 2016 (Free article, selected for the volume Physics Education 50 years)
- Rotating swings - a theme with variations, Pendrill A-M, 2016 Physics Education, 51 (1) 15014 (open access) with video abstract (Svensk översättning)
- Liquids in accelerated motion, Fägerlind C-O and Pendrill A-M, Physics Education Physics Education 50, 648-650 (2015) (Manuscript)
- Free fall and harmonic oscillations - analysing trampoline jumps, Pendrill A-M and Eager D, Physics Education 50, 64-70(2015) (incl video abstract) (Manuscript) (Video abstract in Swedish)
Studsmattematte - fritt fall och harmonisk svängningsrörelse Nämnaren 2015, nr 1, 37-42 (kopia) - Back to school, First Drop, nr 98, 2014 (Magazine for the European Coaster Club)
- The equivalence principle comes to school - falling objects and other middle school investigations, Pendrill A-M, Ekström P, Hansson L, Mars P, Ouattara L and Ryan U (2014) Physics Education, 49, 425 (open access) with video abstract
- Motion on an inclined plane and the nature of science, Pendrill A-M, Ekström P, Hansson L, Mars P, Ouattara L and Ryan U (2014) Physics Education, 49, 180 (Video abstract and manuscript copy)
- Friktion - experiment med klossar och rutschbanor. Enkel modell eller komplicerad verklighet? 11-åringar planerar, undersöker och diskuterar. A-M Pendrill, P. Ekström, L Hansson, P Mars, L Ouattara och U Ryan, LMNT-nytt 2014:2, s 1-6
- Teacher Roles in amusement parks, Pendrill A-M, Kozma C and Theve A, (2013) Proceedings ICPE-GIREP, p 591-599
- Student investigations of forces in a roller coaster loop, Pendrill A-M (2013), European Journal of Physics, 34 1379 (Manuscript) (also "Fram mitten eller bak - var ska man sitta?" LMNT-nytt, nr 2 2013.)
- Stopping a roller coaster train, Pendrill A-M, Karlsteen, M and Rödjegård, H (2012), Physics Education 47 (6), 728 (including a video abstract and an IR movie)
- Gunga med Galileo - matematik för hela kroppen (Swinging with Galileo - mathematics for the whole body), Pendrill A-M (2012) Nämnaren (2) p 40-44
- Acceleration and rotation in a pendulum ride, measured using an iPhone 4, Pendrill, A-M and Rohlén J (2011) Physics Education 46, 676-681 (Manuscript)
- Assessment in mathemathics teacher education. Lindberg, L., Pendrill, A-M (2011). in Voices on learning and instruction in mathematics, ed J. Häggström et al. Göteborg: University of Gothenburg.
- Going wild teaching physics on a roller coaster, Giovanni Pezzi (2011), Science in School, Issue 20
- Achterbahn fahren im Physikunterricht (Roller coasters in Physics Education) Verena Heintz, Ann-Marie Pendrill, Anette Schmitt, Klaus Wendt (2009) Physik in unserer Zeit, 40 (2) s. 90-95
- See also: Acceleration in school, in everyday life and in amusement parks Pendrill, A-M, Invited chapter, accepted for publication in Science Education in the 21st Century ( Nova Science Publishers, NY, Ed. Ingrid V. Eriksson)
- How do we know that the Earth spins around its axis? Pendrill, A-M (2008) Physics Education, 43 158-164
- Acceleration in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions in launched roller coasters, Pendrill, A-M, (2008) Physics Education 43, 483-491
- Is It More Thrilling to Ride at the Front or the Back of a Roller Coaster?, Stefano Alberghi, Alessandro Foschi, Giovanni Pezzi and Fabio Ortolani (2007), The Physics Teacher, Volume 45, Issue 9, pp. 536
- University and Engineering Physics Students' Understanding of Force and Acceleration, A-M Pendrill, Contribution to 8 Nordic Conference on Science Education, Aalborg, 2005
- Pernilla Nilsson, Barns kommunikation och lärande i fysik genom praktiska experiment, (Children's communication and learning in physics through practical experiments) NorDiNa 1, 58-69 (2005)
- Learning Physics with the Body, Pernilla Nilsson, Ann-Marie Pendrill and Håkan Pettersson, Contribution to XI IOSTE 2004
- Classical Physics Experiments in the Amusement Park, Sara Bagge and Ann-Marie Pendrill, Physics Education,Nov 2002
- Physics in the Amusement Park, Notes for Physics on Stage 2, April 2002, and conference contribution to Girep, August 2002
- Liseberg at Christmas, A physics walk through the park (2001)
- Science at the Amusement Park, Ann-Marie Mårtensson-Pendrill and Michael Axelsson
CAL-laborate, Volume 5, October 2000 (copy)
Physics Education 2005
- A roller coaster viewed through motion tracker data (with Henrik Rödjegård, p522) pdf, from IOP
- Roller Coaster Loop Shapes, (p517) pdf, from IOP
- Playground swings. Part of joint article with Gary Williams: Swings and Slides (p527), pdf, from IOP
- Award: Faculty honours rollercoaster designer, p491
- Signing off, Questions to ponder when visiting an amusement park (p593)
