PhysicsCode 5054
Friction
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- Describe friction as a force that can resist motion and can cause heating
- Understand how objects move under an unchanging weight or driving force, both with and without drag, including air resistance or resistance in a liquid
- Account for how an object comes to reach terminal velocity
- Define, for a vehicle in motion, its thinking distance, its braking distance and its stopping distance
- Explain the ways in which thinking distance and braking distance can be altered by a range of factors, including speed, tiredness, alcohol, drugs, load, tyre surface and road conditions