The other concerns the shape of the pattern of contact between the rock and ice. Suppose you took a curling rock and spun it as fast as you could manage, and pushed it only slightly, so that the rock was rotating very rapidly and sliding over the ice so slowly that it would only move from one side of the house to the other?
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from one side of the house to the other