Slides

How fast will you slide down these slides?

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Exploring and noticing Working systematically Conjecturing and generalising Visualising and representing Reasoning, convincing and proving

Being curious Being resourceful Being resilient Being collaborative

Problem

Consider the slides in the pictures.

Can you rank how fast you'll be moving (speed in any direction) when you reach the end of the slides, if there are no drag forces?

What if there are drag forces? Can you give a sensible approximate ordering? Does it matter what kind of drag forces they are, and how big they are?