Monday, 25 July 2022

Investigating Friction

Trying out different frictional surfaces and different objects to see how different shapes and surfaces work. The students were surprised at the results which were not as obvious as they thought.
Carpet had a higher frictional co-efficient  than the glass-paper and in took quite of investigating to find out why.

 

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