This Carnival ride what....?

Well at my school fair we have each year..we have this ride called the Gravatron spelled something like that anyways..Well its this ride..were you stand up on a red mat..and theres no buckles or saftey thiny ma bobs, and when it starts to spin faster and faster! That seats fly up lol, and u cant move AT ALL! O_O why is that? lol

This Carnival ride what....?
That is a Gravitron. They are becoming increasingly less common. What is holding you in is a high g-force (also why you feel heavier in that type of ride when it is in motion) created by the spinning motion. You can actually "stand up" (on the red mat you are supposed to "lie" on) at a nearly horizontal angle without falling.
Reply:yeah its the force. Like...when u have a bucket of water and you spin it upside down fast enough the water is forced to stay in. Or like a roller coaster in a loop....only instead of vertical, this is horizontal.





Gravitrons were once VERY popular rides. They still are but now we see less of them and carnivals seem to become less of a big thing then they used to be in like...the 90s-
Reply:It is called Inertia [pronounced in er sha] and as long as the ride continues to spin in the same rotation you stay there but say if it hit a bump or moved out of that rotation you would fall. You can do it with a bucket of water fill it 1/4 way and swing it around [like over your head up and down not side to side] if you do it right the water will not spill at all. It's taught in PHYSICS. Here is the definition:





The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force.





Hope this helps!
Reply:the answers above are all correct...im in the amusement industry and have been around this ride my entire life. when i was a kid i used to wait and ride it with just a few friends and after the ride got going we all shifted our bodies around until we were upside down....just remember to always shift back around as the ride is slowing down or else u will end up on ur head!
Reply:its called centrifical force
Reply:I don't know. I've been on a ride like that before at Rye Playland.



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