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Scrambler Ride

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The scrambler (or twist) is a popular amusement park ride. It turns on a dual axis, with each axis a center of an independent rotation. A frame with three arms rotates at constant speed around a central axis. At the end of each arm, a second axis is the center of a rotating cage containing four riders.
In the real world, the cage and the frame rotate in opposite directions, giving the riders the impression of crashing into each other. In this Demonstration, the frame is rotating at a constant angular speed while the cage is only given an initial speed and is left freewheeling the rest of the time.
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