What is Cart: Definition and 320 Discussions

A cart or dray (Aus. & NZ) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people.
It is different from the flatbed trolley also known as a dray, (for freight) or wagon, which is a heavy transport vehicle with four wheels and typically two or more humans.
Over time, the term "cart" has come to mean nearly any small conveyance, including shopping carts, golf carts, gokarts, and UTVs, without regard to number of wheels, load carried, or means of propulsion.
The draught animals used for carts may be horses, donkeys or mules, oxen, and even smaller animals such as goats or large dogs.

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  1. Cyrus

    Equations of motion of a pendulum in a cart.

    I am looking over an old problem about a cart that has a pendulum on it, and you are supposed to find the equations of motion. The pendulum is made from a mass and a wire. Because wire can only support tensile loads, the tension has to be directed along the direction of the wire. Any force not...
  2. K

    Gravity Work & Power of a Lawn Mower & Motion of a Cart

    Homework Statement 1a) Find the work done by the force of gravity. Given- Force = 350 Newtons distance = 2.00 1b) find the power of a lawn mower the time is 30 min and the force is 88 Newtons and the distance is 1.2 km 2a) a 15 kg cart starts from rest, travels 10 meters...
  3. M

    Grocery Cart Forces: Final Speed

    Homework Statement A 105.0 N grocery cart is pushed 11.0 m along an aisle by a shopper who exerts a constant horizontal force of 40.0 N. If all frictional forces are neglected and the cart starts from rest, what is the grocery cart's final speed? Homework Equations Wnet=deltaKE...
  4. T

    Moving cart that rotates when acclerating

    Homework Statement There are 5 forces R1 and R2 which are the vertical reaction forces on the rear and front wheels respectively. F1 and F2 are the friction forces on the wheels. And finally Mg which acts at the center of gravity which is closer to R2 then R1. Only known value is R1 which...
  5. K

    Newton's Second law problem; rail and cart model.

    Homework Statement A 800 g steel "cart" has a square steel rail running through the middle of it, touching the steel cart on all four sides of the rail. An elastic cord attached to the front of the cart and the "ceiling" of the apparatus creates a 45 degree angle from the horizontal axis in...
  6. D

    Simple Harmonic Motion with 2 Springs attached to a Dynamics Cart

    I'm trying to write a lab report but I cannot figure out how to derive the formulas for my Theories and Derivations section. Basically, the set-up was this: Two springs were attached to either ends of a dynamics cart. Each spring was then attached to a bumper at either end of the dynamics...
  7. B

    Simple Harmonic Motion of a cart

    Homework Statement A 0.620-kg cart is moving down an air track with a speed of 2.33 m/s when it collides with a spring. The spring is initially at its equilibrium position, but the cart compresses the spring. It takes 0.0780s after the cart hits the spring for the cart to come to a stop. The...
  8. R

    Velocity of shopping cart with given energy/work input

    Steve does 50 J of work to push a 3.0 kg shopping cart out of his way. If the cart started from rest, what was its speed immediately after this push? (Assume there was no friction.) Does anyone know how to calculate velocity with just given energy?... is it calculating the kinetic energy?
  9. F

    Comparing Kinetic Energy of Objects with Different Masses: A Simple Explanation

    Hi all, This really isn't a homework question, but rather a "coursework" question. It's pretty simple, I'm just trying to understand the concept. It's a workbook problem from my book. Homework Statement A 0.2 kg plastic card and a 20 kg lead cart both roll without friction on a...
  10. G

    Cart on an inclined ramp, with rebound

    [SOLVED] Cart on an inclined ramp, with rebound A 500 g cart is released from rest 1.0 m from the bottom of a frictionless, 30° ramp. The cart rolls down the ramp and bounces off a rubber block at the bottom. The figure (below) shows the force during the collision. After the cart bounces...
  11. R

    Why Does a Block Topple on a Moving Cart?

    Hey guys, I'm struggling a little bit with this physics problem (look at the attachment for a diagram of the situation about to outline). There is a cart, upon which a block of a material of uniform density, with width w and height h rests. The coefficient of friction between the block and...
  12. N

    What Is the Final Velocity of a Cart Pushed with a Force at an Angle?

    A shopper pushes a 25.0kg cart intially at rest with a froce of 25.0N directed at an angel 25 degress downward from the horizontal over a distance of 5.00m a) the work done by th shopper is ? b) The final velocity of the cart is
  13. J

    Calculating Speed of Cart at Positions 1, 2, and 3

    Homework Statement A cart starts from position 4 in the figure below with a velocity of 13 m/s to the left. Find the speed with which the cart reaches positions 1, 2, and 3. Neglect friction. speed at position 1 ___ m/s speed at position 2 ___ m/s speed at position 3 ___ m/s...
  14. I

    How Can You Reason With a Horse When it Comes to Newton's Laws of Cart Pulling?

    Homework Statement According to legend, a horse learned Newton's laws. When the horse was told to pull a cart, it refused, saying that if it pulled the cart forward, according to Newton's third law there would be an equal force backwards. Thus, there would be balanced forces, and, according to...
  15. V

    Newton's 3rd law and horse cart

    If every action has an equal & opposite reaction, how can a horse pull a cart forward ?
  16. D

    Calculating Distance: Jill's Sprint to Catch a Rolling Shopping Cart

    Jill has just gotten out of her car in the grocery store parking lot. The parking lot is on a hill and is tilted 3^\circ. Fifty meters downhill from Jill, a little old lady let's go of a fully loaded shopping cart. The cart, with frictionless wheels, starts to roll straight downhill. Jill...
  17. R

    Where does the rocket land relative to the cart?

    Homework Statement Just started an introductory college physics I course. I'm interested in the course but I'm having a hard time grasping the concepts. I'm not great at math but you guys probably won't have a hard time with this problem. If somebody could help me that'd be great thanks. A cart...
  18. R

    Roller coaster loop cart velocity

    in an amusement park ride a cart of mass 300kg and carring four passangers each of mass 60kg is dropped from a vertical height of 120m alonga path that leads into a loop-the-loop machine of radius 30m. The cart then enters a straight stretch from A to C where friction brings it to rest after a...
  19. G

    Calculating Acceleration of Loaded Cart – Friction & Weight Matter?

    Homework Statement suppose a block with mass m is being pulled by force f,the force of friction (first static then kinetic) will resist its motion. now, take this block and put it on a cart with wheels and pull it with the same force,when calculating the acceleration of this loaded cart,is it...
  20. X

    Efficiency of a Cart Rolling Down an Inclined Plane

    Homework Statement Alright for this thing, we had to pull a cart up a inclined plane and time how long it took to get to the bottom. Distance from ground to top of inclined plane is - 0.125m Length of Board is - 1.21m Mass of cart - 1.09kg Force to pull cart up - 1.4N Time it took for...
  21. R

    Finding Acceleration of a cart. NEW

    Homework Statement A grocery cart is being pushed with a force of 450 N at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal. If the mass of the cart and the groceries is 42 kg: a) Find force of friction if coefficient of friction is 0.6 b) Find acceleration of cart. Homework Equations...
  22. A

    Elastic Collision of moving cart

    Homework Statement A 6.0 kg cart moving at 6.0 m/s collides with a 2.0 kg cart moving at 2.0 m/s in the same direction on the same track. The collision is cushioned by a perfectly elastic bumper attached to one of the carts. What are the velocities of the carts after the collision? What was...
  23. G

    Solving a Frictionless Cart Problem with Rain

    hi. can anyone push me in the right direction with the followin problem, please? Homework Statement a cart is moving on a frictionless surface at a speed of V_0 the mass of the cart is M. it suddenly starts to rain at time t=0. the rain is dropping vertically at a rate of q gk per...
  24. D

    Acceleration of Cart Rolling Down Incline

    Homework Statement A cart is rolling down an incline (angle to horizontal is theta). It has two wheels, each wheel has mass m and moment of inertia mR^2/2. The total mass of the cart and the two wheels is M. Using conservation of energy (assuming no friction between cart and axles), show that...
  25. R

    Finding Speed to Push Cart up Hill

    Homework Statement I have to find the speed needed to push a cart on top of a hill and I only have the height as a number. Homework Equations A boy places his matchbox car at the top of the track he has set up with his brother. If the track starts atop the 55 cm toy box, descends to the...
  26. C

    Calculating Kinetic Energy for Colliding Carts

    A 2.4 kg dynamics cart with a linear elastic spring attached to its front end is moving at 1.5 m/s [W] when it collides head on with a stationary 3.6 kg cart. What is the velocity of each cart at minimum separation? The answer is 0.6 m/s [W] Can anyone show me the steps?
  27. J

    Force of friction of this cart on wheels with a motor driven propeller

    can anyone show me how to solve this problem? a cart on wheels with a mass of 250 g has a motor driven propeller with a force P of .3 N, and it moved down an incline of 30 degrees with an acceleration of 3.5 m/s^2. What is the force of friction ? determine coefficent of friction
  28. J

    Cart with propeller - Find force of friction

    can anyone show me how to solve this problem? a cart on wheels with a mass of 250 g has a motor driven propeller with a force P of .3 N, and it moved down an incline of 30 degrees with an acceleration of 3.5 m/s^2. What is the force of friction ? determine coefficent of friction
  29. N

    Fletcher's Cart Lab: What is it?

    Fletcher's cart? I am doing a lab on Fletcher's cart. When I try to do a search on this nothing comes up. Is this lab go by another more popular name?
  30. Y

    Impulse and momentum of a cart down a ramp

    Question: A 500 g cart is released from rest 1.0 m from the bottom of a frictionless, 30 degrees ramp. The cart rolls down the ramp and bounces off a rubber block at the bottom. During collision, the cart and the ramp are in contact for 0.0267 sec. The average force exerted by the ramp on the...
  31. S

    Another Action/Reaction question Donkey and a cart

    Another Action/Reaction question...Donkey and a cart! Hey, i am doing this for prety much basic physics but i need to: Draw all the action-reaction pairs. If the cart pulls on the mule with the same force that the mule pulls on the cart, how can the mule move? Can you help me out...
  32. S

    Solve the Golf Cart Physics Problem & Find Total Trip Time | Physics 101 HW Help

    A golfer rides in a golf cart at a speed of 3.10 m/s for 21.0 s. She then gets out of the cart and starts walking at an average speed of 1.20 m/s. for how long (in sec) must she walk if her average speed for the entire trip, riding and walking, is 1.90 m/s? I know average speed = d/t I'm just...
  33. S

    Solve the Physics 101 Problem: Golf Cart and Walking Speeds

    A golfer rides in a golf cart at a speed of 3.10 m/s for 21.0 s. She then gets out of the cart and starts walking at an average speed of 1.20 m/s. for how long (in sec) must she walk if her average speed for the entire trip, riding and walking, is 1.90 m/s? I know average speed = d/t I'm...
  34. Y

    Accelerating shopping cart from rest

    I'm pretty sure this is an easy problem but I don't know what formula to use - At the local grocery store, you push a 16.2 kg shopping cart. You stop for a moment to add a bag of dog food to your cart. With a force of 12.0 N, you now accelerate the cart from rest through a distance of 2.02 m...
  35. H

    What is the mass of the cart?

    Thank you-- Problem: A 50 kg boy runs at a speed of 10 m/s and jumps onto a cart. The cart is initially at rest. If the speed of the cart with the boy on it is 2.50 m/s, what is the mass of the cart? I don't know what to do. This probelem seems very simple but I don't know where to start...
  36. D

    Heavy cart not moving but being pulled

    A person is sitting in a heavy cart with wheels. The person pulls a rope attached to a rigid support, but the cart does not move. Where does the energy expended by the person go? Is it converted into heat or stored somewhere as potential energy, please clarify?
  37. S

    Deriving the Coefficient of Rolling Friction for a Cart on an Incline

    Hello. I need some help with the following problem. There is a cart on an incline and a pulley with a suspended block. Assuming that (the force of friction)= (mu)(N) symbolically show that the coefficient of rolling friction for the car moving down the incline plane with a constant...
  38. S

    Cart Pushing: what happend to s & fk?

    Cart Pushing: what happened to s & fk?? A person pushes a 16.0 kg shopping cart at a constant velocity for a distance of 22.0 m. She pushes in a direction 29 degrees below the horizontal. A 48.0 N frictional force opposes the motion of the cart. (a) What is the magnitude of the force the...
  39. F

    Solving an Uphill Task: A 10° Frictionless Ramp & 8 m/s Cart

    This is the most horrible question I've ever had to do. It should be simple, but it's not! A cart moving at 8 m/s on a flat surface goes up a frictionless ramp tilted 10 degrees from the horizontal. How far up the ramp should the cart go? It's not worded like that exactly, but the question...
  40. N

    Forces problem: a donkey pulling a cart

    I worked out the following problem, but I am unsure of my answers. Do they look correct? Part A A 255 kg donkey is pulling on a cart with a horizontal force of 1940 N. The mass of the cart is 520 kg and the cart is rolling at a constant velocity of 0.72 meters / second to the left. Find...
  41. N

    Physics: an elephant pushing a shopping cart

    My question is whether the FBDs I have for the following problem are correct or not: A 320 kg homeless elephant pushes a 700 kg shopping cart. The coefficient of static friction between the feet of the elephant and the ground is 0.98. The elephant (and the cart) accelerate at 0.27 m/s^2...
  42. X

    Newtons 3rd law+Horse Cart System+Action/Reactonhelp needed

    Newtons 3rd law+Horse Cart System+Action/Reacton..help needed ASAP! im a sophmore in the ib program and I'm in conceptual physics i have a test tommorow on Newtons third law and all the stuff that goes along with it.. so i need an answer on this pronto! first of all.. if you are standing...
  43. D

    Cart Propelled by Weighted Balls Down an Incline

    Okay, I got another problem for you guys that I have been trying to figure out. Here first is the diagram: I have been experimenting with different weights of balls and different weights of cars, also different ramp lengths. 5 balls are supposed to be used. Nothing seems to work at...
  44. A

    Undergoing large project: go cart

    Well I have sat around thinking about it long enough, and I finally have a place to build it so finally I am going to make my go cart/project car. I have acquired a 6HP vertical drive shaft mower engine. I may be able to get an 18HP one though, which would be better I think. I am planning on...
  45. R

    How Can Neural Networks Control an Inverted Pendulum on a Cart?

    Dear colleagues, I am trying to program a java application which should demonstrate the control of the inverse pendulum on a cart using a complex of two neural networks using two-stage learning process. The problem is keeping the balance of the rod of the pendulum. I have found this website...
  46. D

    Design Wooden Cart: Stop Before Hitting Wall with Egg

    I am a junior in high school working on a project in which you have to design a wooden cart with no padding to carry a egg one meter as fast as possible and stop before passing the one meter mark and hitting a wall. My problem is i don;t know how to make the cart go fast and then stop without...
  47. M

    Lab report: pulling cart up a ramp, find efficiencies

    I am doing a lab report and something is wrong. I don't know if it is my results, or if it is my calculation. What we did was pull a cart up a ramp upside down (wheels facing up) with different masses and different angles of the ramp. We pulled it up with a spring scale calibrated in...
  48. F

    Calculating the Minimum Acceleration for a Wooden Block to Stay on a Cart

    Maybe it's just me, but i would classify this one as hardcore... Due to a cart's sudden acceleration, a 200 g wooden block remains on the front of the cart and does not slide or fall off. The mass of the cart is 10 kg. The coefficient of static friction between the block and the front of...
  49. P

    Mechanics problem: cylinder on cart

    I am having problems with the following: A uniform 2 kg cylinder rests on a laboratory cart. The coefficient of static friction between the cylinder and the cart is 0.5. If the cylinder is 4 cm in diameter and 10 cm in height, which of the following is closest to the minimum acceleration of...
  50. A

    Finding Maximum Acceleration on a Box on a Cart with Friction

    This is a link to a picture of my problem: http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/9382/cart5rh.jpg It asks what tension on the rope would give the cart a maximum acceleration. The surface the cart is on is frictionless, while the cart itself is not (the surface the box is on). To solve...
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