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Originally Posted by CapriRacer
Hysteresis is the amount of heat generated for a unit volume of rubber doing a unit of flexing. Think of it as internal friction.
And since there is less rubber in a worn tire, that's why worn tires have lower RR than new tires - everything else being equal.
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...heat is a
byproduct of hysteresis, not the other way around, because hysteresis is the "lagging" of stored energy
behind its causing force.
...examples of hysteresis are: tires, transformers, magnetic recording, magnetic amplifiers.
...just about anything that deforms but doesn't
exactly return to its pre-deformation characteristics, ie: less than 100% energy IN to energy OUT ratio...with some manner of intermediate energy "storage."