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  2. Friction - Wikipedia

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    Most dry materials in combination have friction coefficient values between 0.3 and 0.6. Values outside this range are rarer, but teflon, for example, can have a coefficient as low as 0.04. A value of zero would mean no friction at all, an elusive property. Rubber in contact with other surfaces can yield friction coefficients from 1 to 2.

  3. Conflict (process) - Wikipedia

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    Ethnic conflict is conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups. [17] Organizational conflict is discord caused by opposition of needs, values, and interests between people working together. [19] Role conflict involves incompatible demands placed upon a person in a manner that makes accomplishing both troublesome. [20]

  4. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Contact mechanics is the study of the deformation of solids that touch each other at one or more points. [1] [2] A central distinction in contact mechanics is between stresses acting perpendicular to the contacting bodies' surfaces (known as normal stress) and frictional stresses acting tangentially between the surfaces (shear stress).

  5. Frictional unemployment - Wikipedia

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    Frictional unemployment is a form of unemployment reflecting the gap between someone voluntarily leaving a job and finding another. As such, it is sometimes called search unemployment, though it also includes gaps in employment when transferring from one job to another.

  6. Personality clash - Wikipedia

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    A personality clash occurs when two (or more) people find themselves in conflict not over a particular issue or incident, but due to a fundamental incompatibility in their personalities, their approaches to things, or their style of life. [1] A personality clash may occur in work-related, school-related, family-related, or social situations.

  7. Hand feel - Wikipedia

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    It is related to the friction between the clothes and the body. It is associated with smoothness, roughness, softness, and stiffness of clothing material. The degree of tactile discomfort may vary with individuals. Some of the terms that describe the tactile sensations are clingy, sticky, scratchy, prickly, soft, stiff, heavy, light and hard. [9]

  8. Traction (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    Traction can also refer to the maximum tractive force between a body and a surface, as limited by available friction; when this is the case, traction is often expressed as the ratio of the maximum tractive force to the normal force and is termed the coefficient of traction (similar to coefficient of friction).

  9. Tribology - Wikipedia

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    Tribology is the science and engineering of understanding friction, lubrication and wear phenomena for interacting surfaces in relative motion.It is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on many academic fields, including physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics, biology and engineering. [1]