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When giving a high five, do both participants recieve the same amount of force?

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  • Asked by jhallan
  • on 2011-02-28 08:43:01
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tbrucenyc says:

Short answer... yes.

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posted on 2011-03-01 13:10:50 | Report abuse


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Jon-Richfield says:

The skins of their palms do, more or less, but it gets a bit more complicated when you consider hands of different masses, travelling at different velocities and of different consistencies (one being softer or fatter etc).

But like the man said, short answer: yes.

It all goes back to Newton's laws, beginning with F=ma.

But whether the relevant question is the same force, or the same ammount of applied work, is totally another matter.

Which of the hands make the more noise, would you say?

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posted on 2011-03-01 16:17:43 | Report abuse


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