Friction is the force that holds back the movement of objects in contact with each other. It occurs due to molecular attraction between surfaces and can cause objects to slow down or produce heat. There are different types of friction, including static friction that prevents stationary objects from moving, kinetic friction between moving surfaces that acts in the opposite direction of motion, rolling friction that objects experience when rolling rather than sliding, and fluid friction that resists the motion of objects through fluids. Friction plays an important role in many aspects of daily life and situations.
Friction is the force that holds back the movement of objects in contact with each other. It occurs due to molecular attraction between surfaces and can cause objects to slow down or produce heat. There are different types of friction, including static friction that prevents stationary objects from moving, kinetic friction between moving surfaces that acts in the opposite direction of motion, rolling friction that objects experience when rolling rather than sliding, and fluid friction that resists the motion of objects through fluids. Friction plays an important role in many aspects of daily life and situations.
Friction is the force that holds back the movement of objects in contact with each other. It occurs due to molecular attraction between surfaces and can cause objects to slow down or produce heat. There are different types of friction, including static friction that prevents stationary objects from moving, kinetic friction between moving surfaces that acts in the opposite direction of motion, rolling friction that objects experience when rolling rather than sliding, and fluid friction that resists the motion of objects through fluids. Friction plays an important role in many aspects of daily life and situations.
Friction is the force that holds back the movement of objects in contact with each other. It occurs due to molecular attraction between surfaces and can cause objects to slow down or produce heat. There are different types of friction, including static friction that prevents stationary objects from moving, kinetic friction between moving surfaces that acts in the opposite direction of motion, rolling friction that objects experience when rolling rather than sliding, and fluid friction that resists the motion of objects through fluids. Friction plays an important role in many aspects of daily life and situations.
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FRICTION
A Reflection Paper
Do you wonder why we slip on a wet surface? Or how stones rubbed against each other produce heat? Or how a violin produces a music when its strings are played with a bow? These are different situations, yet when you observe them longer you’ll notice one similarity, and this is the occurring contact between two things or surfaces, and this is possible because they are enacted with a force – Friction is what we call this.
Friction is the force that holds back the movement of an object. This movement may be the rubbing of two things against each other. Now, this force is caused by molecules being attracted to each other that may cause objects in contact to slow down their movement. Also, these objects may have to produce energy that may come out as heat. However, for some instances, friction also causes musical instruments to produce sound. Most people only appreciate the work of friction between solids, and sometimes between a liquid and solid. In addition, objects with more mass have more friction, since gravity pulls harder in objects with greater mass. In addition, friction also works with gases; for example, a parachute safely falling to the ground is due to friction, because it is enacted with air resistance – the work of friction in gases.
Moreover, friction has different types working for similar and different objects. First we have static friction that prevents motion between the surfaces. This is when you let a pole stand against a wall, without it slipping and falling to the ground. Then, the kinetic or sliding friction occurs between moving surfaces as it experience an opposing force in the opposite direction, just like when we push a table to the opposite side of the room. Next is the rolling friction that can be only experienced by a rolling object; this is just similar to a sliding friction like a bowling ball rolling along the way to the pins. For the last one, we have the fluid friction or drag force, where it resist motion the motion of a fluid or other objects through the use also of fluid. Let us have our everyday washing- the-plates-chore for example, where sometimes two plates with wet surfaces are stuck together.
