freefall, losing your stomach

I love losing my stomach on freefall ride but i got to wondering what is really acouring in your body to produce that feeling? My thoughts were that it had to do with adrendrilen?

anyone know what really is going on in your body?

I am sure that adrenaline has something to do with the feeling of you losing your stomach because I don't think that anyone could be bored at the top of a hill, but here's what is really happening: Your body is composed of mostly water, and therefore your organs are "floating" in it. When you fall, you are at an angle and your organs are pressed up against your diaphragm, which gives you the feeling your stomach. You can think of your stomach as a coin when you go on the demon drop... although you and the penny are both falling the penny does not fall as quickly as you do because it's mass is not as great. Which shows taht because your organs do not have as much mass as the rest of your body they do not fall as fast. And so they go up until they hit your diaphragm which pulls them down with you. If you were to be lying flat, as you do when you go skydiving, you would not have this feeling. Hope I helped a little bit, leave another post if you've got any more questions!!!

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2000 Millennium Force Ride Operator!!!

This topic is for Coasterbuzz.

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Andrew
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~coasterz

Andrew how do i get to coaster buzz?

Andrew why is this topic for Coasterbuzz? Cedar Point has a freefall ride or two.......

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Natalie
ATL Zone 3 Sweeps 2000

I am SOO impressed by the answer!!
And there is no reason why this cant be here and Coasterbuzz--
seems to me Demon Drop & certainly PT are considered freefalls, no??

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Welcome back Raptor riders-how was your flight??

Who cares...The people who are members at Coasterbuzz are members here too..and vice-versa.

Well, I care because this a Cedar Point discussion board. It does fit in the scope of the discussion here. Myself and the other moderators will decide what's appropriate, OK? Let them do their job.

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Jeff
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"And he says 'I'm goin' crazy up there at the lake...'"

Coasterbuzz is a site just as good. It is run by Jeff. The address is www.coasterbuzz.com
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Andrew
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~coasterz

Doesn't everything fall at the same speed?

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I snowboard....Nuf said.

yes skoz it does, it hink it is 6.8 or 8.6 or something like that a sec. we studied all that crap earlier in the year, but i forget.
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"he's a chick magnet if ya know what i mean", MxPx's Chick Magnet

Skoz, you are right, everyting, despite mass, falls at the same speed. Some things fall at a slightly differnt speed due to air resistance though. Its one of Newton's Laws of motion. (and hey punk...MxPx rulez)

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"Welcome back riders, DID YOU ENJOY YOUR FLIGHT?"

I don't recall it being one of Newton's Laws of Motion but on earth, without friction, everything falls at 9.8 meters per second squared or 32 feet per second squared. This means for every second that you fall, you go 32 feet per second faster.

Items in a freefall on earth accelarate at ~9.8m/s^2.


(Whoops, what he said -- we both posted the same thing around the same time ;) )

--Greg
*** This post was edited by GregLeg1 on 4/1/2000. ***

If you consider that according to Newton's laws, objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and objects in motion tend to stay in motion unless some net force is applied. This also applies for direction changes. Another factor that will come into play is acceleration due to gravity. WE will take these simple concepts and apply them to the following situations. Firstly: your body in a car while going around a turn. Although your car is moving around the turn, it would rather go forward in its previous direction. This is directly shown through the body of someone sitting in the passenger seat. When turning left, their body presses against the door on the right. Now, go a step further and think of your body being a jar, and internal "stuff" being that coin that someone talked about. When the jar is dropped at any initial speed faster than g, and since the coin inside has no net force being applied to it, the coin will only fall at the speed of gravity. (It would like to remain at rest) Since the jar is continually now falling faster than the coin, the coin inside will tend to move to the upper part of the jar if not hit the top lid depending on the initial difference in velocity of the jar and gravity. The coin will remain at the top of the jar until shortly after the jar stops falling. This is what we call air time.
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-Dave Kochman
Pittsburgh

Thats basicly what I ment DaveTKoch.

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"Welcome back riders, DID YOU ENJOY YOUR FLIGHT?"

OK, so it is quite obvious that I am going into medicine and not physics... I tried! :)
~Shannon

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2000 Millennium Force Ride Operator!!!

congrats on working on MF this summer smiles. Hope to see you in the station.

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Welcome back Millennium Force riders...We all want to know how was your RIDE!!!!!

Okay heres another question for you... Why is it some people dont get that lossing your stomache feeling, and other dont get it as much the more coasters they do in one day, but yet I, get the same feeling no matter what i ride and how many times i do it in one day. This feeling makes me have to get the "nerve" to get on coasters. I love them and all, but I get a "panic" type feeling each and evertime! Any coaster I ride, its like the first time for my stomache I have ever rode a coaster! Drives me nuts!

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The more you ride it, the more you want it!

~~~Darla~~~

There is an interesting theory about that on display at COSI Toledo. The general idea is that when exposed to extreme accelerations, the fluid in the semicircular canals in the inner ear starts sloshing around. These canals contain detection hardware which is wired to give you a sense of direction and balance. When that fluid starts to slosh randomly, the positional information the inner ear provides to the brain and the positional information that comes from your other senses causes the brain to become confused. The interesting part of the theory is that the brain's reaction is to decide that the body must have been poisoned, and so it responds by shifting the digestive system into reverse.

What I like about that theory is that it explains why some people do not have this problem, and why the problem seems to decline over time with successive Cedar Point visits (gotta keep on-topic, eh?) as your brain can learn that this particular sensation is *not* a poisoning, but rather a roller coaster, and therefore it is not necessary to reverse the digestive tract.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.