Anybody have a guess as to why?
05-26-2017, 08:01 PM
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Melting Slicks
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Anybody have a guess as to why?
This is about wet traction and tires, sort of.
I have noticed that when I slip my rubber sandals on my feet that, as long as everything is dry, they slide right on. I think the composition of the sandals is not all that different from a typical tire.
When my feet or the sandals or both are wet, the coefficient of friction seems to go up dramatically and it can become a two handed job to put them on.
This strikes me as being completely contrary to logic and I have given up trying to interpret what is going on here. If this same thing happened between tires and roads, we would drive faster in rain showers than in the dry.
I have two pair of sandals from two different manufacturers and it's the same for either pair.
Does anybody have an answer? Maybe we should be making all-weather tires out of ground up sandals?
I have noticed that when I slip my rubber sandals on my feet that, as long as everything is dry, they slide right on. I think the composition of the sandals is not all that different from a typical tire.
When my feet or the sandals or both are wet, the coefficient of friction seems to go up dramatically and it can become a two handed job to put them on.
This strikes me as being completely contrary to logic and I have given up trying to interpret what is going on here. If this same thing happened between tires and roads, we would drive faster in rain showers than in the dry.
I have two pair of sandals from two different manufacturers and it's the same for either pair.
Does anybody have an answer? Maybe we should be making all-weather tires out of ground up sandals?
