Fun from Lecture Notes
Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 06:17AM
By Eric Richardson
I'm reviewing for a midterm that I think I might have today, and came across this from lecture notes explaining stress vs. force.
For example: considering the effect of a fat woman wearing flats vs. one wearing spiky heels. The total force on the floor is the same. But the normal stress on the floor is much larger right under the spiky heels because the acting surface is much smaller. The spiky heels will clearly do more damage to a wooden floor (want to try it on your feet??) when the floor gets stepped on.
Political correctness has not yet completely taken over our lives.