Effects of Friction

Review:

What are the

effects of friction?
Group Activity
RULES &
REGULATIONS
BOOK FRICTION

Materials:
2Phone books about the same size (2 books
with soft covers will work)

Procedure:
1. Before you begin, just half the books and
put them together to show how easily they
will come apart that way.
BOOK FRICTION
2. Now, interlace the pages by alternating a page from each book.
The pages of the books will be woven and the spines will be facing
out. Make sure several inches of the pages overlap. So you'll lay
down the cover of book A, then the cover of book B over it. Then
the back page of book A and the back page of book B. Then the
next page and so on until the books' pages are woven together.
3. You don't actually have to do every page for the experiment to
work. You can weave a few pages at a time so it won't be an all
day process.
4. Now grab one of the book spines and have a friend grab the
other spine. Pull on the books to see if you can pull them apart.
Have a game of tug of war with the books.