Thread: Contact Area and its Relation to Friction?
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Unread 03-11-2007, 20:50
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Re: Contact Area and its Relation to Friction?
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Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor View Post
Anyone care to help me out here? I guess that physics and math and stuff say this shouldn't work, but it did. So I'm confused.
Where did you put the weights to equalize the mass of the two 'bots? I ask because if there was more weight directly over the double-wheel's driven wheels it would behave as you describe.
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