A camp at Tulsa Community College is letting students test their math and engineering skills by creating a roller coaster, and then putting that roller coaster to the test. “It’s a process, like ...

One of the first “roller-coaster” rides in the U.S. was actually a short coal railway in Pennsylvania that hauled coal downhill between mines and used mules to bring the empty cars back up the hill.

Math and science are a scream for the 12 students in the course “Roller Coasters: Theory, Design, and Properties,” at Bates College, in Lewiston, Me. The students study roller-coaster design to learn ...