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Reducing The Pressure

The document provides instructions for calculating how effective heel stoppers are at reducing pressure on high heels. Students are asked to: 1) Calculate the surface area of a high heel shoe, 2) Re-calculate the surface area including the heel stopper, and 3) Use the pressure equation to show how heel stoppers reduce pressure based on the surface area and average person's mass. They are also asked to consider how embellishments on heel stoppers could reduce their effectiveness and perform calculations to support their analysis.

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Reducing The Pressure

The document provides instructions for calculating how effective heel stoppers are at reducing pressure on high heels. Students are asked to: 1) Calculate the surface area of a high heel shoe, 2) Re-calculate the surface area including the heel stopper, and 3) Use the pressure equation to show how heel stoppers reduce pressure based on the surface area and average person's mass. They are also asked to consider how embellishments on heel stoppers could reduce their effectiveness and perform calculations to support their analysis.

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Topic Pressure, force and Level GCSE (or any other course for

area students aged 11-16)


Outcomes 1. To measure the area of an irregular object
2. To calculate the area of a circle
3. To use and understand the equation p=f/a

Reducing the pressure: Heel Stoppers

Brief: You are working for a company called Clean


Heels Limited. You have been asked to carry out
some calculations to show how effective their new
Heel Stoppers are. First watch this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2d6Rzq0N1Q

Calculations: In the video above, Deborah Meaden says the Heel Stoppers make
“a lot of difference”. How much difference do they make?

1. Calculate the surface area of the high heel shoe you have been given using
1cm2 paper.

2. Now calculate the surface area of the high heel shoe, assuming that it now
has the Heel Stopper connected, with a surface area of 2.5 cm2.

3. Using your answers to questions 1 and 2 you now need to perform some
calculations to show why the Heel Stoppers are effective at reducing the
total pressure exerted on the ground by the shoes? You can assume that
the average mass of the customer is 70.2 kg.

4. Some of the Heel Stoppers are embellished with pearls and diamonds (see
below). Why might this reduce the effectiveness of the Heel Stopper? Do
you think this is a significant problem? Perform a calculation to support
your answer; you will need to make some assumptions.

Progress: further resources on forces are available here:


http://www.thescienceteacher.co.uk/forces

www.thescienceteacher.co.uk | resources for science teachers who like to think

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