Several years ago, the Mythbusters famously tried to separate two thick phone books with pages tightly interleaved. They couldn’t do it. Scientists know it’s due to the enormous amounts of friction being generated, but precisely how this friction arises is a longstanding mystery. A new paper by French researchers concludes that it all comes down to the number of pages, their thickness, and the size of the overlap (contact) region between sheets.
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