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Down Hill Race

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Small design changes can make a big difference to performance. Race the wheels down the track and see which gets there first. The six wheels are very similar but some will always get to the bottom first. Look closely at the wheel to discover that some have the mass at the edges and others closer to the centre. Using a different experiments, can you arrange the wheels from fastest to slowest and explain why?

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