How do water slides work?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

Vermont Public

Nature, Language, Kids & Family, Science

4.4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How do water slides work and how are they built? Why do you have to be a certain age or height to go down a water slide? Where does the water in water parks come from? And which is easier to design and build: a water slide or a roller coaster? First we did a little research of our own at Jay Peak Pump House Water Park. (And by “research” we mean “going down the water slides.”) And to teach us more about what’s actually happening when you take your thrill ride, we talked with water slide engineers Songyi Moon and Kelly Sall at WhiteWater West.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's me, Jane.
0:03.3	One of the things we love about making but why is that we get to hear your voices in
0:07.6	the questions you send us.
0:09.5	From the plain old goofy, my name is Winston, I'm eight.
0:15.4	To the very sweet, and I love you.
0:19.0	And so many of you close your messages out like this.
0:22.6	Bye, I love you, show.
0:24.6	We just want to say right back at you, we are thankful for our community of curious
0:28.9	kids around the world.
0:30.5	And adults who are listening, if you value this program, please consider sending some
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0:37.8	We are a nonprofit supported by our listeners.
0:41.0	You can make a gift today at BowieKids.org slash donate.
0:45.6	Thanks.
1:09.7	This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public.
1:13.8	I'm Jane Lindhol.
1:15.4	In this show, we take questions from curious kids just like you all over the world and
1:20.0	we find answers.
1:22.3	It's still cold and wintry here in Vermont, so we wanted to head somewhere warm and tropical
1:28.3	feeling and really fun for today's episode.
1:32.1	But we also didn't want to have to go too far.
1:34.7	So we drove up to Northern Vermont right up near the Canadian border to an indoor water park
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