Textbook Guide Physics: Density Of Air, Surface 3, Centripetal Force

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The magnitude of the kinetic frictional force, which acts when there is motion, is less than the maximum magnitude of the static frictional force, which acts when there is no motion. A frictional force is the vector sum of many forces acting between the surface atoms of one body and those of another body. When two ordinary surfaces are placed together, only the high points touch each other. If surfaces are smooth, many atoms of one surface contact many atoms of the other surface, and the surfaces cold-weld together. If the applied force is great enough to pull on surface across the other, there is a tearing of welds and then a continuous re-forming and tearing of welds as movement occurs. The kinetic frictional force of the forces at contact that opposes the motion is the vector sum. If two surfaces are pressed together harder, more points cold-weld.

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