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  2. Friction - Wikipedia

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    Friction can have dramatic consequences, as illustrated by the use of friction created by rubbing pieces of wood together to start a fire. Another important consequence of many types of friction can be wear, which may lead to performance degradation or damage to components. It is known that frictional energy losses account for about 20% of the ...

  3. Collision response - Wikipedia

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    The friction force opposes the motion of the object. Friction results when two surfaces are pressed together closely, causing attractive intermolecular forces between the molecules of the two different surface. As such, friction depends upon the nature of the two surfaces and upon the degree to which they are pressed together.

  4. Solvent effects - Wikipedia

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    The case for S N 2 reactions is quite different, as the lack of solvation on the nucleophile increases the rate of an S N 2 reaction. In either case (S N 1 or S N 2), the ability to either stabilize the transition state (S N 1) or destabilize the reactant starting material (S N 2) acts to decrease the ΔG ‡ activation and thereby increase the ...

  5. Collision theory - Wikipedia

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    Collision theory can be applied to reactions in solution; in that case, the solvent cage has an effect on the reactant molecules, and several collisions can take place in a single encounter, which leads to predicted preexponential factors being too large.

  6. Frictional contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    The solution of a contact problem consists of the state at the interface (where the contact is, division of the contact area into stick and slip zones, and the normal and shear stress distributions) plus the elastic field in the bodies' interiors. This solution depends on the history of the contact.

  7. Relative viscosity - Wikipedia

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    Relative viscosity (a synonym of "viscosity ratio") is the ratio of the viscosity of a solution to the viscosity of the solvent used (), =. The significance in Relative viscosity is that it can be analyzed the effect a polymer can have on a solution's viscosity such as increasing the solutions viscosity.

  8. Friction in business isn’t always bad. Timely intervention ...

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    Friction-fighters create new rituals to ensure the opposite. Have teams identify wasted effort, pointless practices, and unnecessary impediments to action and systematically remove them. Beware of ...

  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]