A world without friction.

  • Date: March 15, 2005
  • Level: Junior High, 9th grade
  • Grade: Unspecified
  • Length: 3 pages (693 words)
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  • Keywords:
    friction, start walking, move towards, trams, bicycles, distances,  ...buses, magnet, wheels, trains, cars
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Without friction the world would be very different! It would be so strange in a bad and good way..... For a start, walking would be different because when you put your weight on the foot behind you there would be nothing to stop it sliding. You would fall over and not be able to walk. It would be very hard to get around. You could consider blowing yourself around but it still wouldn't work. Taking in a breath, you would slide forward and then blowing out, you would slide backward! Having no friction when walking could also be a huge advantage. You would be able to push yourself off against a wall and slide huge amounts of distances forever without being ...

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... have a lot of violin players who would be very unskillful seing they would be unable to produce a note with their bow and violin. The bow would just slide right across the strings! In watertheme parks water slides would need to be built with more of a horizontal degree otherwise people slide down at the speed somene drops down from a high height! One they do reach the ground, they wouldn't stop so a brick wall would need to be built facing the slide. There could be a lot of bruised bodies involved! The world would be a very unsafe place for people to live. When meteors enter the earth's atmoshphere there would be know air

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