You volunteer for chalkboard cleaning duty and you get to work with the erasers. As you rub the dust off of the chalkboard, white chalk dust enters the air and makes you cough. As you clean the chalkboard with the eraser, are you causing a physical change or a chemical change? Explain your answer.

A physical change

Explanation:

You are wiping chalk particles from the board to the eraser which is just changing the location of the chalk particles, a physical change.

you're not changing the chalk into a new substance or causing a chemical reaction, which would be a chemical change.

this is poiselle's equation from fluid mechanic in physics. mech eng