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How to calculate force to apply to move object to a certain distance.
Hello I just wanted to know if there is any formula to calculate the force required to move object to a certain distance or if any one has his/her own made formula .Any help is appreciated. thanks in advance. ps. I am a physics noob.
Answer by ImpOfThePerverse · Oct 03, 2017 at 08:21 PM
If you apply a force that's proportional to the distance from your rigidbody to the target location it will move towards that point and stop accelerating when it gets there. Without the right amount of friction and/or drag on the rigidbody though it will oscillate around that point before coming to a stop, so you need to tune those until it's critically damped.
It's trickier if you're trying to "kick" the object to a target point with a single application of force at the start.
@ImpOfThePerverse thanks really much that gave me great ideas