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Friction sliding down a slide?
So we have big slides that slide into a foam pit for our science project. Lil lego people slide down them. were is the friction during them sliding down the slide into the foam pit?
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- oldprofLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Wherever there is contact between M. Le Go and the slide's surface. That could be on the bottom, sides, or both of the slides.
You see friction force, which tends to slow down the slide speed, goes as F = kN; where k is the coefficient of sliding friction between the lego gent and the slide's surface and N is the normal force of the lego gent onto the surface.
And that surface is any surface of the slide where the lego fellow touches it. So if m. Le Go, the French lego guy, is flopping back and forth during his daring descent into the foam and touching the sides of the slide as well as the bottom, the friction will come from the sides as well as the bottom of the slide where the lego guy touches it.
