College Physics (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073512141
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-214-3

Chapter 2 - Conceptual Questions - Page 62: 23

Answer

No.

Work Step by Step

The concept of contact force is valid for macroscopic scale. The idea of contact may not be valid at the atomic scale, because there is no method to define contact between atoms.
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