| | Category | PH | P29 | The Effects of Waxes on Downhill Skis |
| | Abstract | The purpose of this investigation was to find what wax makes skiers go |
| | faster if is was Swik Ski and Snowboard wax, if it was Alpine Ski wax, |
| | just an ordinary candle wax, or Turtle car wax. All four of these waxes |
| | have different textures and different ways of being applied, and what |
| | was trying to be shown was, if you added a weight to the wax, the block |
| | will go faster. All this shows is when a skier goes down the hill they will |
| | got that much faster because there has been more weigh added. The |
| | investigation was done by, making a slope and waxing four sets of boards |
| | for each wax, all four tracks were interchangeable. The experiment was |
| | seeing how fast a block of ice went down the track, weighted and a just a |
| | normal block of ice. The normal not weighted time that was the fastest |
| | was the alpine ski wax with an average of 2.71 s. and the fastest |
| | weighted wax was the candle wax with the average time of 2.456 s. The |
| | hypothesis for this project was proven correct, because the hypothesis |
| | was when sliding an ice block down a plank of wood if the wax is more |
| | slippery in texture, then the wax will be faster and more efficient. In |
| | conclusion both either the Alpine Ski Wax or the Candle wax are the way |
| | to go if you want to go the fastest on the slopes! |
| | Bibliography | Turtle Wax “Turtle Wax” Turtle Wax http://www.turtlewax.com/ 2009, |
| | February 5th 2009. |
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| | Jai Dee Marketing “Candle Wax” CandleWax |
| | http://www.candlewhiz.com/introduction/wax.php 2003, February 29th |
| | 2009. |
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