Putting Water in Water Slides:
In order to slide down the Waterslide, you need a constant stream of water reduce friction between you and the fiberglass surface. To maintain this stream, the water park has to get a supply of water to the top of the slide. Most water slides do this with a pump, housed in a building near the base of the slide. In the standard design, the pump motor turns a drive shaft, which is attached to a propeller. The spinning propeller drives water forward, in the same way an airplane propeller moves air particles. A propeller is: "a mechanical device for propelling a boat or aircraft, consisting of a revolving shaft with two or more broad, angled blades attached to it."
The pump draws water from a collection sump, typically the pool at the base of the slide, pushes it up through a narrow pipe to the top of the slide. In this way, the water running down the slide is constantly recycled. In some parks, the water is cycled through several connected pools before it is pumped back up to the top of a slide.
This information is from: http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/water-slide4.htm
In order to slide down the Waterslide, you need a constant stream of water reduce friction between you and the fiberglass surface. To maintain this stream, the water park has to get a supply of water to the top of the slide. Most water slides do this with a pump, housed in a building near the base of the slide. In the standard design, the pump motor turns a drive shaft, which is attached to a propeller. The spinning propeller drives water forward, in the same way an airplane propeller moves air particles. A propeller is: "a mechanical device for propelling a boat or aircraft, consisting of a revolving shaft with two or more broad, angled blades attached to it."
The pump draws water from a collection sump, typically the pool at the base of the slide, pushes it up through a narrow pipe to the top of the slide. In this way, the water running down the slide is constantly recycled. In some parks, the water is cycled through several connected pools before it is pumped back up to the top of a slide.
This information is from: http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/water-slide4.htm
Constructing Water Slides!!
A small water slide, the sort you might find in somebody's backyard, has a very simple construction. It's a single piece of smooth fiberglass material, in the shape of a slide, supported by a metal frame.
Most water park slides have a similar structures to there water slide design. But water slide at an actual water park are much larger. Obviously, it's not more likely to use a single piece of fiberglass for a giant water slide. Water park slides are formed from dozens of fiberglass segments fastened together with heavy-duty bolts. Sometimes the individual sections fit together like sections of a toy race track.
Each section has one end with a raised lip and one end with a sunken step. When you fit two sections together, the lip of segment A rests on the step of segment B. This ensures that the sections hold together, with a smooth seam between them. Gracefully, the slide feels like a single unit to the rider. Slides typically use completely enclosed tubes for the sharpest turns, to make sure everyone stays in.
Information from: http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/water-slide3.htm
A small water slide, the sort you might find in somebody's backyard, has a very simple construction. It's a single piece of smooth fiberglass material, in the shape of a slide, supported by a metal frame.
Most water park slides have a similar structures to there water slide design. But water slide at an actual water park are much larger. Obviously, it's not more likely to use a single piece of fiberglass for a giant water slide. Water park slides are formed from dozens of fiberglass segments fastened together with heavy-duty bolts. Sometimes the individual sections fit together like sections of a toy race track.
Each section has one end with a raised lip and one end with a sunken step. When you fit two sections together, the lip of segment A rests on the step of segment B. This ensures that the sections hold together, with a smooth seam between them. Gracefully, the slide feels like a single unit to the rider. Slides typically use completely enclosed tubes for the sharpest turns, to make sure everyone stays in.
Information from: http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/water-slide3.htm
Monster Water Slides work on magnets?
http://news.discovery.com/tech/videos/tech-monster-water-slides-work-on-magnets.htm
http://news.discovery.com/tech/videos/tech-monster-water-slides-work-on-magnets.htm
World's WILDEST Water slide
Scorpion's Tail
Noah's Ark Family Park, Wisconsin Dells, Wis.
The Scorpion's Tail, designed by WhiteWater West of Canada, opened on this Memorial Day and it is the first capsule slide in America. It's 10 stories high and 400 feet long, with a up and down drop that takes riders crash at a rate of 50 feet per second.
Why It Stands Above the Rest: Instead of sitting down and pushing off down a steep slide, riders stand in a capsule for 3 seconds until the floor drops out beneath their feet. "You literally have no control," says Joe Heflin, senior vice president for News and Park Sales at WhiteWater West. "It's like falling down an elevator shaft."
This water slide seems pretty fun and cool. Here is a video to check it out yourself.
Scorpion's Tail
Noah's Ark Family Park, Wisconsin Dells, Wis.
The Scorpion's Tail, designed by WhiteWater West of Canada, opened on this Memorial Day and it is the first capsule slide in America. It's 10 stories high and 400 feet long, with a up and down drop that takes riders crash at a rate of 50 feet per second.
Why It Stands Above the Rest: Instead of sitting down and pushing off down a steep slide, riders stand in a capsule for 3 seconds until the floor drops out beneath their feet. "You literally have no control," says Joe Heflin, senior vice president for News and Park Sales at WhiteWater West. "It's like falling down an elevator shaft."
This water slide seems pretty fun and cool. Here is a video to check it out yourself.
Here is our graph and survey in to one!