neither increasing nor decreasing friction

Friction can be Decreased by the following method..

By making both the surfaces very rough By making irregular projections and depressions like those we see on the tyre..

In real life an object which is moving over a horizontal surface does not continue with constant velocity when the accelerating force is removed. Instead the object slows down and eventually stops. The deceleration is caused by a frictional force between the object and the surface on whic..

Increasing and Decreasing Functions - This section explains how derivative can be used to check whether a function is increasing, decreasing or neither increasing nor decreasing in its domain. Let f be a function defined on an interval I a..

Let f be a function defined on an interval I and let x 1 and x 2 be any two points on I. (i) f is said to be increasing in the interval I, ..

Force of Friction - According to Newton's first law of motion every body continues to be in its state of rest or uniform motion along a straight line unless an external force acts on it. This means that a ball moving on a horizontal surface should continue to move indefinitely as no force..

Frictional Effects - An oscillator, in actual practice, almost always lies in a resisting medium, like air, oil etc., where part of its energy is dissipated in overcoming the opposing frictional or viscous forces and its amplitude, therefore, goes on decreasing progres..

The maximum force of static friction is independent of the area of contact. The maximum force of static friction is proportional to the normal force i.e., if the normal force increases, the maximum external force that the body can withstand without moving, also ..

From what has been discussed above, it may appear that if there were no friction, our life would have been much more easier and we would not have to spend energy in overcoming the frictional resistance. This is not true. As a matter of fact, it is only because of frictionh..

Consider a block of wood lying on a plane horizontal table. There is no force of friction as the block of wood is stationary. Push the block lightly with the hand. The block does not move because the force applied by the hand is exactly balanced by the force of friction acting h..