[ODE] Bouncing constants

Graham Fyffe gfyffe at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 10:44:45 MST 2005


Google for "coefficient of restitution".  You might find that a
steel-steel collision has a COR of 0.9, and wood-wood has a COR of
0.4, in which case a steel-wood collision would have a COR of roughly
sqrt(0.9 * 0.4) = 0.6.  Roughly.

- Graham Fyffe


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:23:26 -0300 (ART), Jose Marin
<jose_marin2 at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Hi.
> Is there some table of bouncing constants?
> For the value of contact[i].surface.bounce.
> For example, the bounce factor when an metalic object
> collides with wood, or a rock...
> 
> 
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