Resource Letter: FMMLS-1: Friction at macroscopic and microscopic length scales

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. (C) 2002 American Association of Physics Teachers.