P6/7 had a great time investigating friction in the context of what sole would be best for a James Bond sports shoe. They chose a sports shoe from the group they were working with and chose 3 surfaces to measure the force needed to move it using a force metre to measure how many Newtons it took to move the shoe,
For each surface we repeated the activity 3 times and then worked out the average force it took to move the shoe in Newtons.
The test was fair in that we only changed 1 thing -the surface the shoe was going to move on. Everything else was the same. We then presented our results as a bar chart and each group found the surface that created the least and the most friction -which shoe had the best grip for James Bond so that he did not fall over.
The results were varied and we came to the conclusion that there were 2 reasons for this- the different types of shoe people used and different people pulling the shoes.
