{"id":216480,"date":"2025-06-24T02:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/novel-yet-simple-model-provides-smooth-answer-to-friction-mystery"},"modified":"2025-06-24T02:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:17:38","slug":"novel-yet-simple-model-provides-smooth-answer-to-friction-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/novel-yet-simple-model-provides-smooth-answer-to-friction-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Novel yet simple model provides smooth answer to friction mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-yet-simple-model-provides-smooth-answer-to-friction-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atoms slip against one another, eventually sticking in various combinations. Tectonic plates do the same, sliding across each other until they stick in a stationary state. Everything from the tiniest particles to unfathomably large landmasses possesses this fundamental stick and slip characteristic, but only now are scientists beginning to understand the mechanics of the friction underpinning this property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intermittent motion in sliding systems is termed stick-slip since the two surfaces in contact seem to repeat the stick and slip states. However, several <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/precise+measurements\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">precise measurements<\/a> have found that extremely slow slip occurs in even apparently stick states before every stick-to-slip transition,\u201d said Toshiki Watanabe, doctoral student in Yokohama National University\u2019s Graduate School of Environmental and Information Sciences, who recently co-authored a paper describing a new model to explain the puzzling switch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis strange phenomenon, termed the static <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/friction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">friction<\/a> paradox, has remained an unsolved problem for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atoms slip against one another, eventually sticking in various combinations. Tectonic plates do the same, sliding across each other until they stick in a stationary state. Everything from the tiniest particles to unfathomably large landmasses possesses this fundamental stick and slip characteristic, but only now are scientists beginning to understand the mechanics of the friction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}