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tricky_tick
Nov2-04, 08:20 AM
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siddharth
Nov2-04, 09:01 AM
Work is Force X Displacement. Now Work is minimum when the net force is minimum
By drawing the Free Body Diagram for the block, you would arrive at
0=ma=F - mg \sin \alpha - \mu mg \cos \alpha
Differentiating F with respect to alpha and equating to zero you would get the required result