https://padlet.com/ckauf453/606_part2 What does really affect the Force of Friction? en-us 2018-02-08 19:34:28 UTC 2025-11-19 19:51:04 UTC hello@padlet.com ckauf453 https://padlet.com/ckauf453/606_part2/wish/229784813 Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to determine if speed has an effect on the Force of Friction.

Conclusion: Speed does not affect the Force of Friction. During testing, we found that the speed we pulled the block at did not affect the Force of Friction. We tested slow, medium, and fast rates of speed and the Force of Friction had no correlation with the speed. 

The shape of the graph looks like that because in the beginning, you have to break the initial Friction which is the m static. Once the object is moving it takes less force to keep it sliding. ]]> 2018-02-08 19:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ckauf453/606_part2/wish/229784813 ckauf453 https://padlet.com/ckauf453/606_part2/wish/229784950 Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to find out if the Normal Force (Weight) has an effect on the Force of Friction.

Conclusion: We found out that the force normal does in fact, have an effect on the force of Friction. The more weight that an object has means that it will be pressing its microscopic impurities on the surface into the other object meaning that the force of friction will go up. 

The shape of the graph looks like that because, in the beginning, you have to break the initial Friction which is the m static. Once the object is moving it takes less force to keep it sliding.

Coefficient of Friction: Ff=mFn
1.7=m5.2 so divide 1.7 by 5.2 and you'll get .32 for the mu.


]]> 2018-02-08 19:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ckauf453/606_part2/wish/229784950 ckauf453 https://padlet.com/ckauf453/606_part2/wish/229785007 Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to determine if the surface area has an effect on the force of friction.

Conclusion: We found that the surface area has no correlation to the Force of friction because on the graph the correlation for all of our tests is very low. 

The shape of the graph looks like that because in the beginning, you have to break the initial Friction which is the m static. Once the object is moving it takes less force to keep it sliding.


]]> 2018-02-08 19:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ckauf453/606_part2/wish/229785007 ckauf453 https://padlet.com/ckauf453/606_part2/wish/229785077 Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to find out if the surface type has an effect on the force of Friction.

Conclusion: The surface type does have an effect on the force of Friction. If the surface is very rough it will have a higher coefficient of friction. If the surface is smoother, the coefficient of friction will be lower meaning that the force of Friction is lower. 

The shape of the graph looks like that because, in the beginning, you have to break the initial Friction which is the m static. Once the object is moving it takes less force to keep it sliding.]]> 2018-02-08 19:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ckauf453/606_part2/wish/229785077