Mesoscale Quantization and Self-Organized Stability

Details Mesoscale Quantization and Self-Organized Stability Mesoscale Quantization and Self-Organized Stability

2005-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0506143v1

Physics

General Physics

11 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

In the world of technology, one of the most important forms of friction is that of rolling friction. Yet it is one of the least studied of all the known forms of energy dissipation. In the present experiments we investigate the oscillatory free-decay of a rigid cube, whose side-length is less than the diameter of the rigid cylinder on which it rests. The resulting free-decay is one of harmonic motion with damping. The non-dissipative character of the oscillation yields to a linear differential equation; however, the damping is found to involve more than a deterministic nonlinearity. Dominated by rolling friction, the damping is sensitive to the material properties of the contact surfaces. For `clean' surfaces of glass on glass, the decay shows features of mesoscale quantization and self-organized stability.

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