Spring 2023 > Angled Movement

Objectives

1. Understand friction.
2. Calculate coefficient of friction for several materials.
3. Gain an intuition of where friction is useful and what materials will increase or decrease friction.

Announcements

None.

Team Exercise

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Lesson

1. What is friction?
   • Definition
   • Where friction occurs
2. Video “Frictional Forces: Static and Kinetic”
3. Lab
   • Build tilting platform.
   • Do a test run
   • Run experiments using four different objects
     • Record results in engineering notebook
4. Group discussion

Exercise

Calculate coefficient of friction and other requested values.

Videos

FIRST Example

We will discuss the application of friction to the 2022-2023 FIRST FTC Power Play challenge where a robot needs to pick up a plastic cone.

Frictional Forces