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friction independant of contact area?

friction independant of contact area?

friction independant of contact area?

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Is it correct to say that fiction force is independant of contact area due to the roughness of apparetly smooth surfaces on  microscopic scale. Therefroe the apparent contct area is larger than the real contact area.

RE: friction independant of contact area?

Friction is too complex to make generalities.
There are different measures of surface roughness.  Some irregularities lock together, others reduce the interaction. Solids have different elastic constants, slippage may wear off irregularities, interatomic bonding may occur at contact points, friction is affected by surface films -- oxides, adsorbed moisture (graphite is a poor lubricant in high vacuum where it loses its moisture content), etc., etc.
Are your solid surfaces more like step function, rolling hills, sawtooth, etc. and are both the same?

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