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I am currently struggling to find a real life connection to this IA topic. in order to do this topic, my teacher requests I connect it to a real life application. I don't really know of what to conenct it to. If anyone has any ideas for what to connect it to, all help would be greatly appreaciated. However, if this whole topic in general is not applicable, does anyone have some easy IA ideas for physics, i'm not very good at physics and I just want something simple to do. Here is my original posted topic.

 

For sliding friction on an incline, the coefficient of friction µ = tan θ for constant speed; but for rolling friction it may not be. You could let a car roll down a ramp on to the horizontal floor and see how long a distance it takes to stop. How does this vary with the angle or height; coefficient of friction of floor material; effect of weight of car and so on. What are the practical implication for this? Does twice the mass (eg a truck) mean twice the stopping distance?

taken from:https://obelkobusnel.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/300-lab-ideas.pdf

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Alright, first of all, this is quite literally the most generic topic ever in all of IB Physics, so I don't even think this topic is great to begin with. Your teacher/marker will have most likely read a few papers on the same topic already.

I guess personal engagement could be like playing with a toy car or hot wheels or whatever as a kid, or something similar to that. If you really don't have personal engagement, it's not exactly easy to fake it well, so you should probably do some more research or somehow make this personal for you.

Good luck!

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