Rubber is an insulator, so it prevents the flow of electricity. Electricians typically wear shoes with rubber soles so they don't get electricuted.
Some of the basic safety precautions you should take when working with electricity include avoiding water, do not use frayed cords, and always turn off the main breakers. Using rubber gloves, goggles, and insulated tools are other safety precautions when working with electricity.
The thick rubber soles prevent the electrician getting a shock, as it stops the charge from going through the electrician's body to earth.
Runnign shoes have flexible rubber soles to absorb impact.
golf shoes have rubber soles because it is a game played on the grass which needs to have stops at every step as rubber will increase the interlocking of friction, golf shoes have rubber soles
Rubber or leather
your soles of your shoes
Nursing shoes are rubber-soled. Most offer more shock-absorbing since we walk / stand a lot.
Yes they do due to how much you walk on them. When your soles start wearing out it's time to get new shoes!!!!!!
Rubber soles prevent the player from slipping while playing basketball.
With a lot of nike products (espically the rubber soles from their tennis shoes) they recycyle the rubber soles and turn them into usful sports equipment. I know for a fact that with the soles, they grind them into tiny pieces or rubber and then use the ground rubber soles to make tracks for local track and field fields. The soft springy rubber track is actually amazing to run on. Also, if the shoes are not in too bad of shape (i.e. soles are worn but the shoes is in decent shape) Nike will donate the shoes to people in need (homeless, poor, third world country inhabitants, etc)
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because the rubber gives you a grip as it produces more friction and is also waterproof.
does any one know this?