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Re: Frictional Discrepancies

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Originally Posted by AndrewN View Post
Doing an incline plane test with four wheels and a

Can other teams please repeat this test and report the angles they are finding for both lateral and transverse static friction.
We measure COF by drag - we simply drag the load with a scale attached on a flat surface.

We are getting around .1 in either direction, dynamic. Static was sightly more (.12 I think).

There is no noticeable difference between dragging it sideways or not with the wheels locked.