Friction Answers

Joshua was driving to a friend’s house to study. During his trip, he started on pavement. At one point, he hit an ice patch on the road, but then he returned to pavement. The road then turned into a gravel road.

Which methods reduce friction?

Olivia bought new gym shoes to play volleyball because she kept slipping when she ran in her old shoes. How will the new soles help solve the problem?

Charlie is investigating friction. She will use the same amount of force to push two wooden balls across two level surfaces. Then she will record her results in the table below.Which prediction will most likely describe how friction will affect her findings?

Which surface most likely has the least friction?

Which is the type of kinetic friction that is difficult to overcome?

Four objects are being tested to see how they are affected by fluid friction. Object W has a surface area of 4.5 cm2, Object X has a surface area of 2.5 cm2, Object Y has a surface area of 6.2 cm2, and Object Z has a surface area of 3 cm2.

Which type of friction acts on an object that is not moving?

Aria is riding her bike. She is bent slightly over, holding onto her handlebars. She wants to go faster.

Myron was trying to light a match. The first time he struck the match, the match did not light. The second time he tried, the match lit successfully.

A kite suspended in the sky is flowing back and forth. Which type of friction is being described?

The chart describes four objects experiencing one or more frictional forces.

Koi is climbing through a cave. She is climbing through a crevice and places her feet so that her body is perpendicular as shown below. She then rests in this spot for twenty minutes.Which type of force is she demonstrating in this position?

Four students are doing different friction experiments with a cylinder. Tristan is working with static friction, Arya is working with sliding friction, Anoush is working with rolling friction, and Keran is working with fluid friction.