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  2. Friction - Wikipedia

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    An example of static friction is the force that prevents a car wheel from slipping as it rolls on the ground. Even though the wheel is in motion, the patch of the tire in contact with the ground is stationary relative to the ground, so it is static rather than kinetic friction. Upon slipping, the wheel friction changes to kinetic friction.

  3. List of dimensionless quantities - Wikipedia

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    Standard symbol Definition Field of application Coefficient of kinetic friction: mechanics (friction of solid bodies in translational motion) Coefficient of static friction: mechanics (friction of solid bodies at rest) Dieterich-Ruina-Rice number

  4. Free body diagram - Wikipedia

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    Free body and kinetic diagrams of an inclined block. In dynamics a kinetic diagram is a pictorial device used in analyzing mechanics problems when there is determined to be a net force and/or moment acting on a body. They are related to and often used with free body diagrams, but depict only the net force and moment rather than all of the ...

  5. List of common physics notations - Wikipedia

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    friction: newton (N) electrical conductance: siemens (S) universal gravitational constant: newton meter squared per kilogram squared (N⋅m 2 /kg 2) shear modulus: pascal (Pa) or newton per square meter (N/m 2) acceleration due to gravity: meters per second squared (m/s 2), or equivalently, newtons per kilogram (N/kg)

  6. Force - Wikipedia

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    Friction is a force that opposes relative motion of two bodies. At the macroscopic scale, the frictional force is directly related to the normal force at the point of contact. There are two broad classifications of frictional forces: static friction and kinetic friction. [17]: 267

  7. Coulomb damping - Wikipedia

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    Coulomb damping absorbs energy with friction, which converts that kinetic energy into thermal energy, i.e. heat. Coulomb friction considers this under two distinct modes: either static, or kinetic. Static friction occurs when two objects are not in relative motion, e.g. if both are stationary.

  8. Bond graph - Wikipedia

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    A quality related to static behaviour. ... kinetic friction coefficient : normal force; Biot–Savart law ... only the symbols change. This can be seen with the ...

  9. Sliding (motion) - Wikipedia

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    Sliding friction (also called kinetic friction) is a contact force that resists the sliding motion of two objects or an object and a surface. Sliding friction is almost always less than that of static friction; this is why it is easier to move an object once it starts moving rather than to get the object to begin moving from a rest position.