2014 Game Ball Damage

[Jibri Wright]

Originally Posted by inkling16

I feel like this is a joke, and I totally don't get it at all. Do you think it is impossible to have a coefficient of friction >1? And that since your number is just marginally greater than 1, that you have broke physics? Well, hate to break it to you, but there are combinations of materials with coefficients of friction >1.

I'm probably just misunderstanding what you are saying though, so would someone kindly explain what he was trying to say?

It is possible to have something with a greater coefficient than one? I honestly didn't think its possible mainly because anything greater one would mean you get more force out than you put in. Because the force of friction=Fn*coefficient of friction. Friction can only oppose up to the magnitude of the force being applied. If the magnitude of the force of friction were greater than the force it opposed, that would mean that friction itself was causing one or both of the surfaces to accelerate. I did not think that was possible since it breaks the law of conservation.