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When would friction not be useful?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Whenever you were trying to reach high speeds or conduct exact experiments where friction would slow something down or cause heat. For example, friction is extreamly "unuseful" when spaceshuttles are re-entering the atmosphere because the friction of the spacecraft and the air create incredibly height temperatures. Special heat plates were invented to absorb this heat. If they fail, like in the re-entry of the Columbia Space Shuttle, the shuttle will be completely destroyed.

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