What Does Perfectly Rough Mean in Surface Interactions?

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What does it mean for the contact between two surfaces to be "perfectly rough"?
 

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Hi delve! :wink:

(can you give an example of a quote that uses this phrase?)

I assume it means that there is no slipping, not even with "infinitely" large force. :smile:
 

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