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IT is universally assumed that the force resisting the sliding of one body over another acts in a direction opposite to the relative velocity. However, no recent test of this law appears to have been carried out, and it seemed worth while setting up a simple experiment to measure any possible transverse component of the friction force.
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RABINOWICZ, E. Direction of the Friction Force. Nature 179, 1073 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1791073a0
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