The blame has been pinned, squarely and often, on inadequate oversight of U.S. financial institutions, which created ever more complex and risky mortgage instruments, lured people to buy homes they could not afford, and brought the economy crashing to the ground.
Motion on the Earth does not take place in a vacuum. When one thing moves, it moves through or across another. When a wheel turns on an axle, the two surfaces rub against one another. This is called dry friction. Grease can be used to separate the solid metal parts, but this just reduces the problem to layers within the grease sliding past one another.
If the externally applied force (F) is equal to the force of kinetic friction, F k, then the object slides at constant velocity, and the coefficient of friction involved is called the coefficient of kinetic friction, Î¼ k. In order to find the coefficient of kinetic friction between two surfaces, the horizontal surface method may be used as follows: Horizontal Surface Method: Referring to Fig. 1, it is clear that M has a tendency to move to the right because of F = mg. F is resisted by the ...