Reducing Water Resistance
Science: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 5.2.5
Reducing Water Resistance
There are ways to reduce water resistance.
Reducing water resistance
- You can streamline an object to make the object move quicker through the water.
- You can make an object more streamlined by making it more pointy.
Streamlined objects
- Streamlined objects move quickly through water because water particles can move quickly over the object's surface.
- Water particles can move more quickly because there is less friction between the object and the water particles.
Test yourself on Reducing Water Resistance
How can you make an object move more quickly through the water?
Which of these is the most streamlined shape?