{"id":5011,"date":"2025-06-28T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:57:34","slug":"coefficient-of-friction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/me\/strength-of-materials\/coefficient-of-friction","title":{"rendered":"Coefficient of Friction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The limiting friction force f<sub>L<\/sub> is directly proportional to the normal reaction between two bodies in contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">f<sub>L<\/sub> \u221d N<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">f<sub>L<\/sub> = \u03bc<sub>s<\/sub> R<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">where \u03bcs is known as the coefficient of static friction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03bc<sub>s<\/sub> = f<sub>L<\/sub>\/N<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coefficient of static friction is defined as the ratio of limiting friction force to the normal reaction between two bodies in contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coefficient of kinetic <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/strength-of-materials\/laws-of-friction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">friction<\/a> is given by<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03bc<sub>k<\/sub> = f<sub>k<\/sub>\/N<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">where f<sub>k<\/sub> (kinetic friction force) is little less than f<sub>L<\/sub> in magnitude, as discussed earlier. Generally, we denote \u03bc<sub>s<\/sub> as \u03bc unless specified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The limiting friction force fL is directly proportional to the normal reaction between two bodies in contact. fL \u221d N<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1619,10],"tags":[1626,1625],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strength-of-materials","category-me","tag-friction-force","tag-kinetic-friction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","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=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}