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SINCE hysteresis was first encountered in magnetism, various examples have been reported in different branches of science, as in mechanics and in surface chemistry. A unified mathematical approach to all these phenomena is possible by means of the theory of system dynamics. Such a theory shows that two time-dependent characteristics, not related by a one-to-one correspondence, will be shifted with respect to each other when they are subjected to periodic change. This phase lag causes hysteresis.
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MEWIS, J., SPAULL, A. & HELSEN, J. Structural hysteresis. Nature 253, 618–619 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/253618a0
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