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title: "Investigating Friction"
url: "https://www.rooseprimary.co.uk/blog/2016-05-04-18-26-08-investigating-friction"
school: "Roose Community Primary School"
---

# Investigating Friction

  ![Image of Investigating Friction](https://files.schudio.com/roose-3/images/blog/image(22).jpeg)  4 May 2016   [Helen Mackie](https://www.rooseprimary.co.uk/blog/author/HMackie)   [Class of 2018](https://www.rooseprimary.co.uk/blog/category/class-of-2018)

We investigated friction by testing how far a toy car would travel on different surfaces.

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