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Friction is all around you. Anytime you have two objects touching but moving past each other, there is friction. (Superfluids and hypothesized supersolids are exceptions.) Your bike driving down the road will slow down and stop if you just coast. Newton showed that the natural state of affairs is for things to keep moving in a straight line at the same speed unless a force acts upon it. The forces in this case include air resistance (a form of friction which is negligible when the bike is going slowly enough) and wheel axles. Friction turns motion energy into heat. A car's brakes can get very hot if you brake all the way down a hill.

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