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Why area of surface has no role in motion due to friction?

Profile image of Vivek Chandra
13 Years agoGrade
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Profile image of Ajay Kumar  Patel
13 Years ago

Because friction depends only on cofficient of friction and roughness of the surfaces and it is independent of the area b/w the surfaces.

Profile image of Tejaswin Gumber
13 Years ago

Friction is a microscopic constant and so macroscopic level area does not matter.

But area would matter if the object we''re putting under study was microscopic, which isn''t in our case.