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Bhargav
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Okay
I chanced upon this problem and have lost some sleep since then.
There is a pulley system with a single stationary pulley with 2 masses m1 and m2 suspended using a string which is inelastic and massles.The coefficient of static FRICTION between the PULLEY and the STRING is mu.What are the accelerations of the masses?
[One way that occurs to me is to find the normal reaction between the pulley and the thread at a point which makes theta with the centre of the pulley and then integrate between limits 0 and pi.Though i am not sure how to go about calculating the normal force at a point(guess using tension in the string and resolving it at that point).]
I chanced upon this problem and have lost some sleep since then.
There is a pulley system with a single stationary pulley with 2 masses m1 and m2 suspended using a string which is inelastic and massles.The coefficient of static FRICTION between the PULLEY and the STRING is mu.What are the accelerations of the masses?
[One way that occurs to me is to find the normal reaction between the pulley and the thread at a point which makes theta with the centre of the pulley and then integrate between limits 0 and pi.Though i am not sure how to go about calculating the normal force at a point(guess using tension in the string and resolving it at that point).]