Kinetic Friction due to Ohm's Law Heating
| dc.creator | Sokoloff, J. B. | |
| dc.date | 2000-08-03 | |
| dc.date | 2001-10-31 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:38:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:38:24Z | |
| dc.description | Using both a recent calculation by Bruch of the damping of the motion of a monolayer nitrogen film oscillating harmonically on a metallic surface due to Ohm's law heating and a Thomas-Fermi approximation treatment of the Ohm's law heating mechanism, which accounts for the nonzero thickness of the surface region of a metal, it is argued that this mechanism for friction is able to account for recent measurements of the drop in the friction for anitrogen film sliding over a lead substrate as it goes below its superconducting transition temperature. Bruch's calculation is also made more transparent by re-doing the calculation for a film sliding at constant speed, instead of oscillating. Using this treatment, it is easily shown that Bruch's calculation is equivalent to integrating Boyer's solution of the problem of a charge sliding over a metallic surface over the charge density of the monolayer nitrogen film. | |
| dc.description | 29 pages, plain tex with special macros provided | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0008063 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0008063 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/16654 | |
| dc.subject | Materials Science | |
| dc.title | Kinetic Friction due to Ohm's Law Heating | |
| dc.type | text |