April 24, 2004 at 2:19 pm
Near my place there is a new amusement ride called the ‘Vomitron’. It has a large arm that spins around and around, with two cages at each end of the arm for two passengers each. It is very much like a centrifuge that they use for pilot training.
There is a lot of screaming when this thing runs, and it does indeed live up to it’s name and make people sick.
My question is this: What kind of g’s would you be pulling in this thing?
My estimates put the cages at the end of the spinning arm to be travelling at about 90km/h.
Is there a special formula for centrifuge g calculation?