{"id":160031,"date":"2015-12-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=93854af0ff35576ea33f61e6fd1a4761"},"modified":"2015-12-17T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:00:00","slug":"rotating-swings-a-theme-with-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=160031","title":{"rendered":"Rotating swings\u2014a theme with variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rotating swing rides can be found in many amusement parks, in many different versions. The \u2018wave<br \/>\nswinger\u2019 ride, which introduces a wave motion by tilting the roof, is among the classical amusement<br \/>\nrides that are found in many different parks, in different sizes, from a number of different makes<br \/>\nand names, and varying thematization. The \u2018StarFlyer\u2019 is a more recent version, adding the thrill of<br \/>\nlifting the riders 60 m or more over the ground. These rotating swing rides involve beautiful<br \/>\nphysics, often surprising, but easily observed, when brought to attention. The rides can be used for<br \/>\nstudent worksheet tasks and assignments of different degrees of difficulty, across many math and<br \/>\nphysics topics. This paper presents a number of variations of student tasks relating to the theme of<br \/>\nrotating swing rides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotating swing rides can be found in many amusement parks, in many different versions. The \u2018wave<br \/>\nswinger\u2019 ride, which introduces a wave motion by tilting the roof, is among the classical amusement<br \/>\nrides that are found in many different parks, in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}