friction
He is still in the difficult, frictional, vulnerable position of striving to be the best.
This system of agreeing medical costs between insurer and doctor is frictional and inefficient.
We might see a fraught and frictional type of transaction between public and government becoming more common.

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Examples of frictional

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In a frictional, pluralistic, society, we expect persons to have a certain thickness of skin.
The single wheel has three resistance forces during the steering - the contact frictional force, the wheel rolling resistance and the scrubbing torque.
Most flows of practical interest fall into the intermediate regime where both frictional contach and particle-particle collisions are significant.
This is the typical situation where the frictional pressure losses inside the basepipe are comparable with the applied reservoir drawdown.
In order for wheel slippage not to occur, the frictional force must not overcome the normal force multiplied by the coefficient of friction.
It is believed that the difference can be explained by frictional effects in the experiments, but so far no conclusive proof of this is available.
Friction was modelled with a slip-rate and temperature dependent friction coefficient, and frictional heat generation was included.
Static and coulomb frictional forces are not taken into account in the model.
The workpiece is held in place by the resulting frictional forces.
To provide an example, consider a bilateral frictional contact process with electrical potential dependent friction law (12), associated to the electrical contact condition (17).
In this paper we deal with a mathematical model which describes the frictional contact between a piezoelectric body and a foundation.
We could find for the two uncertainties by taking the reverse of the frictional angle as the fourth contact situation.
Static frictional contact problems for electro-elastic materials were studied in [4, 10-12, 16] under the assumption that the foundation is insulated.
The stiffness of spring z can also be adjusted, scaling the overall frictional force.
The dominance of the surface frictional layer is unchallenged, even in a wave environment, which as every swimmer knows, is much more inertial than viscous.
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