No.
its called friction when you hit it with the hammer the two surfaces rub together aka the hammer head and the nail head
The claw hammer can not only hammer a nail into wood but can , by way of the claw , grasp the head of the nail and be used to pry/leverage the nail from wood .
part of claw hammer that strikes the head of the nail
with a hammer
The way to use the back of a hammer is to place a sticking up nail in the back corner of the the hammer, than place the head of the hammer on the ground. finely pull the handle of the hammer away from the nail.
I will strike the nail with the hammer. I strike the nail with the hammer. I struck the nail with the hammer. I have struck the nail with the hammer.
The hammer is acting as a lever. The force exerted against the fulcrum (the head of the hammer) causes the claw end to lift and extract the nail.
The kinetic energy transfers from the hammer to the nail. The molecules inside the nail move rapidly and create heat.
Hammerhead Sharks are carnivorous predators. Their diet includes fish, squid, Octopus, Crustaceans and Sting Rays. Sting Rays are one of the hammerheads favorite prey species. Large Hammerhead species esp. the "Great Hammerhead" is known to feed on other hammerhead species as well. Hammerheads are also cannibalistic, they eat their own young ones.
Notably , the claw-hammer which has a flat head on one end to drive the nail into the wood and has a claw opposite of the strike head to remove the nail from the wood using the principles of leverage to extract the embedded nail from wood .
You hit the nail squarely on the head, driving it in, then unless it's a really big nail, 3-4 more careful hits will seat it.
hammer - nail screwdriver - screw