Sticky stuff ------------ "Viscosity" is a viscous drag force which applies a resistive force on the masses proportional to their velocity. "Stickiness" is not a real force. When a mass hits a wall, it loses part of its velocity component in the direction of the wall (in an amount proportional to the stickiness). If it loses all of this component, it remains stuck to the wall. It will remain stuck to the wall until a force (which exceeds an amount proportional to the Stickiness) pulls it off the wall.


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