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Old 08-22-2007, 11:46 PM
Lestat Lestat is offline
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Default Re: Science Q: Arm Wrestling \"Friction\"?

<font color="blue">If there was any difference in the forces, at any time in the 2 minutes, one of us would have won.
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I think your error lies here. I don't think it's true. The force is constantly changing. Maybe you're putting out 100.7 of Newton's force for a split seccond, only to drop back down to 100.05, while she ups it to 100.10 for the next 10th of a second, and so on.
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