Worksheet: A Learning Guide for Running on Water

Students complete this 2 page worksheet to learn the basics of free body diagram and static equilibrium, eventually concluding that it is not possible for a person to run on water.

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Phoebe Jackson

SALTISE Contributor, John Abbott College, Montreal

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• STEM
• Physics

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