Unit 5 - Friction

Growing up, I learned all my science lessons from Bill Nye. But this is one video in particular I remember watching on a couple different occasions, when there were substitute teachers who didn't know what else to do with us than have us watch educational videos. Here's 22 minutes worth of Bill Nye teaching you about friction.

In class today, we had an extremely education Slip n' Slide (doesn't it sound physics related?). When Gio first attempted to slide down it, there was only the plastic sheeting on the grass, no water or soap. Unfortunately, he didn't travel far. But when water was added, the friction decreased, increasing the distance traveled by our Slip n' Sliders. And eventually, with soap, the distance was increased so much so that people were able to travel to complete distance of the runway.