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Force and Friction
Force and Friction
ARISTOTLE - Natural world has 4 elements- air, water, earth and fire. Objects move because of their innate tendency to find their natural place.
JOHANNAS PHILOPONUS (550 AD) If I exert an impetus, an object moves. Impetus keeps a body moving.
JEAN BURIDEN (355 AD) When impetus diminishes, motion also diminishes. When impetus is removed, object stops moving. GALILEO GALILEI showed that the bodies were accelerated by gravity to an extent which was independent of their mass and argued that objects retain their velocity unless acted on by a force, for example friction.
is a push or a pull
Force that opposes the motion of the body The component parallel to the surface.
Static friction frictional force enough to prevent relative motion between surfaces in contact. Sliding or kinetic friction- occurs when there is relative motion at the interface of the surfaces in contact Rolling friction- takes place when one surface rotates as it moves over another surface but does not slide or slip.
f=N
f = friction = coefficient of friction N = normal force
-Use rough surface -Make use of heavy materials -increase the velocity -increase the area of contact
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