Homework Statement
I'm working with the polygons on the interior of stars that have been drawn in a specific manner. For an example, I'm currently using a 16-gram. To construct the same one I have, you array sixteen vertices equidistant from one another around a central point (as in the...
I see... so the mass of the object on top of the slanted surface doesn't affect the angle at which it starts to give? But a heavier mass would make it slide faster once it did start moving, wouldn't it? I suppose that makes sense.
Sad, but true. I usually use Wikipedia whenever I want to...
I see what you mean now. I like the idea of doing it vertically - that would reduce the amount of calculations we'd have to do (very good for us - not exactly physics majors). To determine the coefficient of friction, we could use minger's idea, couldn't we? The only problem I see with that...
Ah, I see. That makes sense. I think we meant to determine the amount of friction being created, or something to that effect...
So you're saying that if we have a large overlap, we ought to account for the weight, but if it's a little overlap we don't. However if there's small overlap the...
Okay, I understand what you mean about Normal Force - that helps a bit. And thanks for that about the maximum friction thingy (too long to type again...).
Um... we're kind of in need of help designing an experiment... but not really. Like... we have what we want to test, but we're just not...
Homework Statement
My friend and I are attempting to figure out what the coefficient of friction is of a stack of paper (say, 100 sheets). Through our research, we've found that the coefficient of friction (\mu) is the maximum possible static friction force (F) divided by the normal force...