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Could a car drive on a frictionless surface? Explain using the terms action

force and reaction force. *

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No, it cannot. The car needs the friction of the surface to drive because the car pushes the surface backwards, and the surfaces makes a reaction force pushing the car forward, and that works because of the friction. In a frictionless surface the tires would rotate in the same place

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