Friction Quizzes & Trivia

It's a cold day. You walk down the road and you can see your breath in front of your face, making little clouds. You forgot to pack your gloves, so what can you do to warm your hands up? It's simple, you rub them together. You just used friction! Friction is everywhere, it's the bane of scientists that want to create perpetual motion...but why? If you know, then it's time to rub your hands together in preparation for this buzzing quiz!

With questions about surviving on a desert island, to why race cars are so smooth and close to the ground, you're bound to get some questions that will rub you the wrong way...but don't react, or else you might just burst into flames! See if you know your friction from your fiction and factions! It's time to get all fired up! Take the quiz and you'll feel a lot warmer inside!

Questions: 18 | Attempts: 2561 | Last updated: Oct 23, 2020

Sample Question
Which direction does Friction act?

Same

Opposite

Types Of Friction

Questions: 6 | Attempts: 2969 | Last updated: Feb 27, 2018

Sample Question
What type of friction is keeping this box from moving down the sloped incline?

Sliding

Rolling

Static

Fluid

Mechanical Advantage Of The Machine

Complete each question below. Each question is worth (4pts). Once completed check your score and review the test. If there is a question on the score please print out the test, mark the question of issue and...

Questions: 25 | Attempts: 371 | Last updated: May 4, 2018

Sample Question
___________ is the process of using a tap or die to produce spiral mating surfaces for the purpose of providing mechanical tension between two mating parts.

Turning

Forging

Threading

Annealing

Friction: Science Trivia Facts! Quiz

We generate friction almost every day when you think about it because judging by its definition, friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, or any other types of surfaces like fluid layers, or when...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 339 | Last updated: Aug 20, 2019

Sample Question
How many types of friction are there in total?

3

4

6

5

Force, Friction, Newton's Laws

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 443 | Last updated: Mar 9, 2013

Sample Question
The type of force that includes charged particles and particles that attract and repel each other.

Nuclear force

Frictional force

Gravitational force

Electromagnetic force

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