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guru
Oct10-04, 07:49 PM
Is there anything such as a frictionless surface? Why?

Sirus
Oct10-04, 09:08 PM
No. Because friction (both static and kinetic) is caused by instantaneous electric attractions between the particles of two surfaces. Only a vacuum could be frictionless, but of course then there is no surface.