Recent content by Troutkibe

Yeah that's what I realize I messed up on. Dumb mistake too :/

Yeah, that's my bad on not using brackets here, but I was using them in the actual calculation. I think I figured it out though, when I multiplied everything by -μ I neglected its negative value and that really threw everything off.

Homework Statement When an applied force elevated at angle θ is used to drag mass m along a surface with μ as the coefficient of friction, the mass accelerates horizontally with some value, a. Derive the cleanest and most simplified formula for the applied force, Fapplied, that will give the...