{"id":162863,"date":"2018-12-05T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T12:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=162863"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T12:16:30","slug":"fabulous-friction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2018\/12\/05\/fabulous-friction\/","title":{"rendered":"FABULOUS  FRICTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would life be like if we didn&#8217;t have friction?  Friction stops us from slipping over and stops a ball from rolling away from us indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>To test the effects of friction we measured how far a short puff of breath would send a ping pong ball on carpet compared with vinyl flooring.  As we suspected, the fibers in the carpet slowed the ball down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5702.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-162860 size-full lazyload\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5702.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5702-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5702-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5702-510x382.jpg 510w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/750;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5700.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-162861 size-full lazyload\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5700.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5700-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5700-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5700-510x382.jpg 510w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/750;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5695.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-162862 size-full lazyload\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5695.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5695-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5695-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/12\/img_5695-510x382.jpg 510w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/750;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would life be like if we didn&#8217;t have friction? Friction stops us from slipping over and stops a ball from rolling away from us indefinitely. To test the effects of friction we measured how far a short puff of breath would send a ping pong ball on carpet compared with vinyl flooring. As we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}