The mechanics of friction may seem the stuff of high-school physics, but only now are some aspects of the problem being understood. A spinning coin is the subject of a new exploration of frictional forces.
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Halsey, T. Friction in a spin. Nature 424, 1005–1006 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/4241005a
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