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Originally Posted by Ether
Those two statements contradict each other. Increased frictional losses will affect the final speed.
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In addition, due to the pliability of the carpet and wheel tread, more weight will mean more loss to
rolling resistance.
The friction and acceleration models taught in high school physics classes are usually not complete enough to be accurate in FRC. I recommend testing for the top speed of your robots, then weighing them down and testing again. I doubt you'll produce the same numbers.