What Happens to Wet Ropes? #climbing #science

this is a dynamic climbing room one can

take hundreds of these massive Falls and

it will still provide a soft Landing for

the climber now if you would pull out

the decor strands take one of them and

untwist it and then dig even deeper and

try to separate the smallest part of the

Rope eventually you would get to a

single filament which is about 10 times

thinner than the human here and it's

kind of hard to see and during the fall

this filaments stretch but also they

slide past each other which creates

friction and this friction helps to

dampen the impact however if we would

make a rope wet water on the surface of

the filaments would act as a lubricant

this would allow the filaments to slide

easier past each other reducing the

dampening effect and potentially causing

harder catches for the climber now if

you want to see what happened when we

put this Theory to the test or learn

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