Monografiya posvyashchena izucheniyu ves"ma rasprostranennogo v tribologii effekta - vliyaniyu normal"nykh kolebaniy slaydera na sukhoe i vyazkoe trenie. Postroena dovol"no prostaya i obshchaya matematicheskaya model" yavleniya, privedeny primery ee primeneniya k razlichnym tribologicheskim stsenariyam. Dlya vospriyatiya soderzhaniya knigi vpolne dostatochno standartnogo fiziko-matematicheskogo apparata na urovne studentov mladshikh kursov tekhnicheskikh VUZov. Prednaznacheno dlya shirokogo kruga chitateley - ot spetsialistov-tribologov do starshikh shkol"nikov, interesuyushchikhsya sovremennymi problemami fiziki treniya.