Limited By The Laws Of Friction

Limited By The Laws Of Friction
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Physics textbooks: "Let's assume the surface is frictionless..."

Real physicists trying to solve actual problems: "I'm limited by the technology of my time."

Nothing ruins a perfectly elegant equation faster than adding friction into the mix! Suddenly your nice, clean inclined plane problem turns into a mathematical nightmare with coefficients of friction and normal forces crashing the party. Those beautiful parabolic trajectories? Gone. That simple acceleration calculation? Ruined. No wonder physicists look so defeated when reality refuses to be an idealized system!

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