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Old 03-12-2012, 01:12 AM
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Default Re: Science Things I Wish My Teacher had Told Me

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Originally Posted by ceptimus View Post
Even with conductive metal blocks, all carefully cleaned and polished to the same surface finish and with the plate and blocks all contained within a vacuum, the smallest block still 'holds on' the longest.
Is that because the greater mass results in a greater force to overcome the friction?

I seem to remember this diagram. . . .

--J.D.
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