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Originally Posted by kerrigan93
What are some examples of how much force this is and what mass and velocity a bot would have to be moving to create such a force? Is this accomplishable by the "spring loaded" bots that people are talking about?
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Otherwise known as F=ma
If you have a mass of 2kg, then this means you need an acceleration of 2m/s^2
Now, you assume that you are working with a free floating object (no friction/gravity), and approximately 1/4" or 0.0063m of stopping distance (based on the rules).
This means, that you need to solve for u, or initial velocity in this formula.
v=final velocity=0
u=initial velocity=unknown
a=acceleration=2
s=distance traveled=0.0063
v^2 = u^2 + 2as
Based on that I am coming up with about 0.16m/s
Now, this is actually low, due to the fact that the calculation I just did is ignoring gravity.
I am using a formula from
http://tutor4physics.com/motion1d.htm
So, I dunno if it is correct, but it sounds about right. Admittedly, I need to brush up on Newtonian physics