Dave Rogers
Bandaged ice that stampedes inexpensively through
Don't look just at the forces - look at their (the forces') displacements = energy consumed.
Okay. We've got mgh, the gravitational potential energy released by the falling block of mass m while falling through distance h. We've also got Fh, the energy consumed by the friction forces as the block falls through the same distance h. Since, according to you, F<mg, then Fh<mgh, and the net energy consumed (Fh-mgh) is negative, over any distance h; in other words, energy is released. In other other words, the collapse does not arrest at any point. In other other other words, you don't change an inequality by multiplying both sides by the same constant.
You have not studied real physics, have you?
Not in your universe, evidently.
Dave
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