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Re: Requesting Physists Help With Friction

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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII View Post
Dragster tires get incredibly hot. If they were small and skiny they would explode or catch fire. Bigger tires can dissipate heat and survive longer.
Thanks I did not realize. However still there are other situations that represent using a larger surface area for more traction.

http://www.ifirobotics.com/robot-traction-wheels.shtml

Inside FIRST robotics it self, IFI sells traction wheels and advertises the wider ones to have more traction. Im also noticing that all my surface area example are wheels, maybe wheels have special friction properties that include surface area, just not that I remember.
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