{"id":5004,"date":"2025-06-25T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:14:47","slug":"introduction-to-friction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/me\/introduction-to-friction","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Friction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a body moves or tends to move on another body, the property of two bodies by virtue of which a force is developed between two bodies, which opposes the relative <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/theory-of-machines\/types-of-constrained-motion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion<\/a>, is called friction. This force is called the force of friction. The force of friction always tries to oppose the relative motion between two surfaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consider a block of \u2018W\u2019 resting on a rough plane. The normal reaction due to weight of block is N. Let a force F is applied to block towards right. The frictional force f will be towards left. Now, if the magnitude of force \u2018f\u2019 is increased, then the block will not move because value of f will also increase correspondingly and will balance f.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A stage will reach when maximum value of f is reached known as limiting value of <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/strength-of-materials\/laws-of-friction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">friction<\/a>, and if now the magnitude of force is further increased, then the value of friction force f will decrease and block will start moving. This lower<br \/>\nvalue of f is called as kinetic friction force fk. The value of fk is constant and will always less than fL<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5005 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strength.jpg\" alt=\"Strength\" width=\"400\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strength.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strength-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a body moves or tends to move on another body, the property of two bodies by virtue of which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1619],"tags":[400,1620],"class_list":["post-5004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-strength-of-materials","tag-equilibrium","tag-friction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}