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Resistive force

In physics, a resistive force is a force which acts on a body due to its motion relative to other bodies with which it is in contact, and whose direction is opposite to the velocity of the body (or in the case of static friction: opposite to the sum of the other forces).

Examples are friction and viscous drag.



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