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Friction-Induced Vibrations and Self-Organization
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Friction-Induced Vibrations and Self-Organization

by Michael Nosonovsky, Vahid Mortazavi
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
333 pages
11h 16m
English
CRC Press
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21Introduction
observations about friction force and equations to calculate such force.
Despite that, for centuries friction remained an ad hoc force that was intro-
duced to solve various problems. Unlike the rest of the entire building of
the science of mechanics, it was not embedded into the texture of mechani-
cal concepts or deduced from any fundamental principle. Furthermore, the
very compatibility of friction with the rest of mechanics was questionable
due to the existence of so-called paradoxes (logical contradictions) discov-
ered in the 1890s by French mathematician (and prime minister of the Third
Republic!) Paul Painlevé (1863–1933
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