Introduction
Tomlinson Movie
Macroscopic Friction
The law of Leonardo (da Vinci)
The law of Euler and Amontons
The law of Coulomb
Historical abstract
Asperities
Adhesion models
Friction Force Microscopy
Principle of measuring
Measuring Topology
Measuring Friction
Both Channels
Calibration
Dissipation
Self assessment
Tomlinson's mechanism
Phenomenology I
Phenomenology II
Mechanical adiabaticity
Distinguish positions
Playing Tomlinson
Friction - a pinning problem
2D Friction
Critical Curves
Historical Background
Research Projects
Simulator Applet
The first Picture
The Panels
Parameters
Post processing
Statistics
Glossary
Textbook
 

Introduction

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"No screaming guitars, no gym shoes, no car races. Without friction Michael Schumacher would be a lame nobody, Moses Kiptanui a sliding clown and Jimmy Hendrix would not have been a genious musician but a disdainful slowpoke. On the other hand friction is the biggest energy annihilator of this world. Approximately 70% of all energy gets lost due to friction. Already the old egypts transported their pyramid pieces on vats and slid them on trunks which they flushed with water against friction heat. Leonardo da Vinci constructed ball bearings to minimize friction. Not to say that friction is the origin of civilisation: No fier without rubbing woods or flints. Although known for a long time he knowledge on the phenomenon is small.

Quote Website Deutschlandradio, Preview of a scientific radio programme

In the following sections we present some appetizers and a short overview on this learning module

 

Subsections:

Tomlinson Movie
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