If you roll one ball across a tile floor and another across a thick carpet, which one will go faster? What force is acting on the slower ball?
Biology · Middle School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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If you roll one ball across a tile floor and another across a thick carpet, the ball on the tile floor will go faster. The reason for this is due to the force of friction acting on both balls. Friction is a force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are in contact.
The tile floor is a hard and smooth surface, which means it will have less friction compared to the thick carpet. A thick carpet has a soft and uneven surface that creates more resistance to the ball’s motion; this results in higher friction. Because of the greater frictional force acting on the ball on the carpet, it will slow down more quickly than the ball on the tile floor.