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Originally posted by Paul Copioli
Mu DOES NOT depend on weight
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That's not
entirely accurate, but usually a good simplification to make
If your wheels are spiked or is made of material that digs into the carpet at all, instead of rubbing against it, the F=mu*N approximation becomes less and less accurate. In reality, as you increase N, mu becomes less and less to some asymptote. According to my experiments anyway
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