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Mass Effect: New Earth

Mass Effect: New Earth is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Mass Effect: New Earth rather than just read about it. In short: Mass Effect: New Earth is a theatrical motion simulator amusement park ride at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. It is an adaptation of the Mass Effect video game series and features recurring characters from the franchise.

Key takeaways

Mass Effect: New Earth belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Mass Effect: New Earth to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Mass Effect: New Earth from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Mass Effect: New Earth is a theatrical motion simulator amusement park ride at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. It is an adaptation of the Mass Effect video game series and features recurring characters from the franchise. New Earth opened on May 18, 2016.

Ride In the 4½-minute ride, guests sit in the 80-seat Action Theater with a custom 60-foot 3D screen with 4K resolution. The audience's motion seats are equipped to simulate wind and water and are equipped with leg pokers and neck ticklers. The ride features 80-channel surround sound. Guests also wear passive 3D glasses. In the ride's plot, which coincides with the timeline of Mass Effect 3 during the invasion of the galaxy by the Reapers, a collective of colossal-sized sentient starships, the audience's ride is simulated as a tourist ship which is repurposed from a disused military convoy. The ship is captained by a live action actor who plays Conrad Verner, an obsessed fan of the original Mass Effect trilogy's main character, Commander Shepard. While the ride mentions but does not show Shepard, it featured numerous elements from the Mass Effect universe such as Shepard's companions Garrus Vakarian and Urdnot Wrex, the insectoid rachni race, and vehicles like The Normandy and the M35 Mako. The tourist ship travels through the Charon mass relay and arrives at the colony world of Terra Nova, where it is attacked by a Reaper Destroyer shortly afterwards. Garrus and Wrex coordinate the counterattack against the Reaper in defense of the colony, and direct Verner to take it down using the tourist ship's cannons. Visitors from past seasons who return to the ride enjoy variations in the experience, because the actors (male and female) who play Conrad Verner work as a team to refine and evolve the script over time, and the ride includes intervals in which the actor can ad-lib or speak freely. The actors are all performers who must audition for the role.

Construction

Electronic Arts, publishers of the Mass Effect franchise, had previously worked with Cedar Fair to produce a ride based on Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare: 3Z Arena) at the Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina. Fortune called the partnership the latest example of amusement park development for contemporary gaming audiences. The Mass Effect ride was announced in September 2015. The Great America amusement park is near Electronic Arts' Redwood Shores headquarters. Mass Effect: New Earth opened on May 18, 2016. 3D Live designed the ride with help from Halon Entertainment and Cedar Fair. BioWare, the series developer, was included on weekly calls to discuss the ride's story, animation, and artwork. The technology used for the ride's screen was originally intended for Michael Jackson's This Is It Tour prior to the artist's death. A representative from 3D Live likened the ride to "a live augmented/virtual reality experience" with the ride's immersive screen, as compared to similar 3D rides at Disney theme parks. Halon Entertainment made the ride's 3D content and borrowed from the series' development assets. The Mass Effect game trilogy was created in the Unreal Engine 3 game engine, and Halon used Unreal Engine 4 for the ride's visuals. Halon's lead technical designer said that the visuals were produced on several artist workstations with Unreal 4 rather than requiring a computer cluster to render the content.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Mass Effect: New Earth

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Mass Effect: New Earth claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Mass Effect: New Earth before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Mass Effect: New Earth ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Mass Effect: New Earth

In research: Mass Effect: New Earth appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Mass Effect: New Earth in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Mass Effect: New Earth is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Amusement rides based on video game franchises, Amusement rides introduced in 2016, California's Great America, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Mass Effect: New Earth outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Mass Effect: New Earth in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Mass Effect: New Earth means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Mass Effect: New Earth out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Mass Effect: New Earth in simple terms?

Why does Mass Effect: New Earth matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Mass Effect: New Earth?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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