Why does a hotel have a lounge with a wooden dance floor restricting people to wear stiletto heels?
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Answer:
(If you don't have much time then straightaway start reading from the Main Explanation)
Intro type:
High heels or spiked heels are damaging to hardwood flooring. They strike the floor with more force per inch than an elephant's foot. High or spiked heels in disrepair are especially harmful, as the heel acts much like a tiny hammer pounding away at the floor with as much force as 10,000 pounds per inch!
Water pressure increases as depth increases. ... *How can a woman wearing high heels exert a greater pressure on the floor than another woman of equal mass wearing work boots? The woman's mass is spread out onto a greater area with the work boots causing the amount of pressure exerted to be lower.
Main Explanation:
Force is mass multiplied by acceleration. In this situation, the force is your weight: your mass (which on earth, weight is defined as the same quantity as your mass) times gravity (the acceleration).
Pressure is having that amount of force narrowed down to a specific surface area.
So say you are 120 pounds (the amount of force). You lie down on the floor—the pressure is your weight is distributed all along the parts of your body touching the ground.
Say you stand on your feet: there is more pressure onto the floor because now your weight is distributed only into the soles of both feet.
Now you have stiletto hells [sic]. We all know from experience that it’s the heels, and not the forefoot area of the shoes that cause damage to flooring. That’s because the surface area is often less than a square inch for both heel tips. That’s a 120 pounds of force applied to less than a square inch of surface area when standing on the heels of your feet while in stiletto heel shoes!! That’s a lot of pressure!