Timeline for Pressure of a sphere against the ground
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| Aug 27, 2021 at 1:52 | comment | added | Floris | Actually it will never be infinite- in the transient state the peak pressure will depend on the speed of sound in the two objects (sphere and ground) - so depending on both their Young’s modulus and their density. Peak transient pressure is higher if the density is higher - the material “gets out of the way” with greater difficulty. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 11:33 | history | answered | Nimrod Morag | CC BY-SA 3.0 |