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We want to slide a 12 kg crate up a 2.5 m long ramp inclined at 30o. A worker, ignoring friction, calculates that he can do this by giving i
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We want to slide a 12 kg crate up a 2.5 m long ramp inclined at 30o. A worker, ignoring friction, calculates that he can do this by giving it an initial speed of 5.0 m/s at the bottom and letting it go. But friction is not negligible; the crateslides only 1.6 m up the ramp, stops, and slides back down.
Find the magnitude of the friction force acting on the crate, assuming that it is constant.
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2021-07-28T03:40:50+00:00
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Answer:
33.72N
Explanation:
To find the magnitude of the friction force you take into account all forces over the object:
where Mgsin0 is the gravitational force, Ff is the friction force F is the force of the worker, m is the mass and a is the acceleration of the object while it is going up the ramp.
it is necessary to find the acceleration of the crate:
with this value and the values for m, g, the angle and d you obtain, by using (1) you obtain:
For the calculation of F:
If the surface would be frictionless you have:
with these values you can calculate the force F:
BY replacing this values in the expression (3) you get:
hence, the magnitude of the friction force is 33.72N