Does weight matter in tug of war?
Rosalee Cartwright
2025-07-09 09:53:19
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Yes, if you put the strongest people in the back the rope will be straighter, making it more likely everyone is pulling in the same direction. The more the puller can lean backwards, and the lower the rope, the more horizontal force he can apply. Presumably he can lean more, and get the rope lower from the back of the line. I can see two advantages: 1) the more heavy set the stronger the muscles, so it means a lot of the force is coming on a long arm. The tug is supposed to be linear but rotations will happen, and there will be amplification of the effect as a lever arm. Putting the heavy players at the end will shift the centre of mass towards the end and will give an advantage in the impulse transfer by a longer distance from the center. To most likely win tug of war,put the heavier people in the back because when they lean back,the rope moves further back. Heaviest to lightest would be good.
Adolphus Kulas
2025-07-04 11:28:46
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In a tug of war, it doesn't matter how strong you are if you don't have enough friction to keep yourself from sliding. The maximum frictional force depends on two things, it depends on the types of surfaces interacting and the normal force. The normal force is the force with which the two surfaces are pushed together, in the case of a tug of war, the ground pushes up with a force equal to the gravitational weight of the person. This means that heavier people will have a greater frictional force acting to help win a tug of war. If you have two contestants on equal ground with similar friction materials, mass matters. If the person on the left has half the mass of the person on the right, they will have half the friction. This means that it's pretty tough to beat a heavier puller. So, it's really about mass, if you have two contestants on equal ground with similar friction materials, mass matters.
Fleta O'Hara
2025-06-25 00:38:26
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It’s not fair to have a tug of war between a Tesla Cybertruck and a Ford F150. The Cybertruck has a weight of 6843 pounds which is quite a bit more than 4000 to 5600 pounds for an F150. You can see in the Whistlindiesel video below, that when the two trucks have the same mass it’s pretty much a tie in a tug of war. Remember that Newton’s second law says that the net force on an object is equal to its mass multiplied by its acceleration. If the truck is just sitting there, then its velocity is constant so that it has an acceleration of zero meters per second squared. That means the net force is also zero. Forces on a Tug of War Truck include the weight of the truck.
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