This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on the fundamental origins of friction. Books, reviews, and journal articles are cited for the following topics: History of friction and tribology, the adhesion theory of macroscopic friction, first principles’ treatments of frictional energy dissipation at the atomic level, experimental methods for studying friction at the atomic-scale, stick-slip phenomena and lattice commensurability effects.
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