Force from Impulse

sara
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Force from Impulse

Post by sara »

Hi,

I am having trouble calculating the force that is generated from a contact. The contact gives me information of the impulse generated, and I have to transform it to force by applying:

force = (impulse * normal) / dt

The problem is that the forces are huge. The impulse generated is about 25 en dt is 0.001.

Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Is there other way of calculating this?

Thanks!