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Can cofficient of friction greater than 1?

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Can cofficient of friction greater than 1?

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Bipin Dubey

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17 Jan 2012 13:00:59 IST

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If the surface is very sticky or rough, a 2 N normal force might require you to push the object with 5 N. The coefficient of friction would be 2.5, showing that the value can be greater than 1. Also, if some special glue was used to attach the object to the surface, such that you could not move it no matter how hard you pushed, the coefficient would be infinity.

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19 Jan 2012 23:01:10 IST

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it can 0 to infinity

shivansh shrivastava

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19 Jan 2012 23:17:15 IST

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It depends 0n th pair of surfaces in c0ntact,so th material n texture r 2 thngs whch may b ch0sen to get it m0re than 0ne...adhesiv particls perform a g0od hindernc to m0tn,so a gum can do it s0metimes

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