Timeline for Will making the surfaces extra smooth increase friction?
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| Feb 23, 2019 at 6:08 | vote | accept | aniketsharma00411 | ||
| Feb 23, 2019 at 5:48 | answer | added | RodolfoAP | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 0:55 | comment | added | Steeven | At the same time as you reach infinite smoothness, you also reach perfect parallellity. The air will not be able to escape between to perfectly parallel surfaces, because of it leaves the middle it will create a vacuum. If you do press the air out in some way, then you will have enormous friction and won't be able to separate them again. | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 0:51 | answer | added | niels nielsen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 22, 2019 at 20:37 | vote | accept | aniketsharma00411 | ||
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| Feb 22, 2019 at 20:34 | comment | added | Martin Beckett | See physics.stackexchange.com/questions/87107/… | |
| Feb 22, 2019 at 20:33 | comment | added | a1s2d3f4 | The bodies will only "join" if their constituents would form a chemical bond on contact. | |
| Feb 22, 2019 at 20:33 | answer | added | corcholatacolormarengo | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 22, 2019 at 20:32 | comment | added | Martin Beckett | It is practically very possible and a real problem in high precision vacuum systems | |
| Feb 22, 2019 at 20:23 | comment | added | aniketsharma00411 | I mean remove asperities that much that it completely joins the two bodies. | |
| Feb 22, 2019 at 20:22 | comment | added | Ballanzor | Friction comes from asperities, it is reduced if you polish the surface | |
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| Feb 22, 2019 at 20:17 | history | asked | aniketsharma00411 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |