Imani pauses with both boots planted before a dry path and a clear frozen patch.

What makes things slippery?

Imani's boots have not changed. The little slope has not changed. But the ground partner might. What decides whether the next step holds or slides?

A slope makes part of gravity pull downhill. Raise this empty practice ramp: a steeper slope asks for more hold-back.

Touching surfaces can push back without sliding—but only up to a limit. Try one flat, unnamed practice pair.

The pair is ready to push back.

Now drive one mystery pair. Amber is what the slope asks for. Teal is the most the pair can supply. The block holds through a tie.

Mystery pair circle can supply three marks.

New covered samples. Flat pull tests measured each limit. Now equal blocks wait behind equal pins on the same locked tilt.

A is left · B is right · both pins are down

Same 3-mark request · A can hold 2 · B can hold 5

At the same locked tilt, what happens when both starting pins lift?