Waterslide physics

[freelancejak]

Information on the physics of roller coasters and bumper cars seems to be ready and easy to find, but it seems to be quite a bit harder to find more than a few articles about waterslide physics.

 

Does anyone know where I could find some larger sources of information on the physics or engineering of waterslides, like textbooks? It's a bit of a personal obsession of mine.

[ecoli]

I seem to be getting quite a few hits on google

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=waterslide+physics&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

[freelancejak]

Thanks for the links. I've tried the first few pages of results already, and unfortunately most of it was a basic overview, save for one article on the role of chaos theory in the engineering of slides.

 

http://www.discover.com/issues/jul-05/departments/physics-of-waterslides/

 

I'll admit, I wasn't quite sure what I was looking for, but this is a good start.

Thanks.