[ODE] Values required to produce at leastsemi-realisticfrictionusing the default constant-force-limit model?

George Birbilis birbilis at kagi.com
Tue Mar 16 13:50:21 MST 2004


my feel is that a rolling sphere (with a torque at an axis passing through
the sphere center and parallel to the horizontal plane), won't move if
there's no friction with the ground. It will keep spinning at the same place
(unless it had some linear velocity too)

>
> Now you're mixing two very different physical problems. A rolling sphere
> really has no friction, because nothing is sliding, that's where the
> problem arises. This is actually a physical vs. mathematical problem,
> i.e. a "problem" with the real world in relation to the mathematical
> friction model, and not really a problem with O.D.E.



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