An inclined plane, also known as a ramp, is a flat supporting surface tilted at an angle, with one end higher than the other, used as an aid for raising or lowering a load. The inclined plane is one of the six classical simple machines defined by Renaissance scientists. Inclined planes are widely used to move heavy loads over vertical obstacles; examples vary from a ramp used to load goods into a truck, to a person walking up a pedestrian ramp, to an automobile or railroad train climbing a grade.Moving an object up an inclined plane requires less force than lifting it straight up, at a cost of an increase in the distance moved. The mechanical advantage of an inclined plane, the factor by which the force is reduced, is equal to the ratio of the length of the sloped surface to the height it spans. Due to conservation of energy, the same amount of mechanical energy (work) is required to lift a given object by a given vertical distance, disregarding losses from friction, but the inclined plane allows the same work to be done with a smaller force exerted over a greater distance.The angle of friction, also sometimes called the angle of repose, is the maximum angle at which a load can rest motionless on an inclined plane due to friction, without sliding down. This angle is equal to the arctangent of the coefficient of static friction μs between the surfaces.Two other simple machines are often considered to be derived from the inclined plane. The wedge can be considered a moving inclined plane or two inclined planes connected at the base. The screw consists of a narrow inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder.The term may also refer to a specific implementation; a straight ramp cut into a steep hillside for transporting goods up and down the hill. It may include cars on rails or pulled up by a cable system; a funicular or cable railway, such as the Johnstown Inclined Plane.
My main question:
Given an angle of incline, x, how can you find the coefficients of static and kinetic friction? Is it possible?
My homework problem is:
Someone wearing leather shoes is standing in the middle of a wooden plank. One end of the board is gradually raised until it makes an...
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A child holds a sled on a frictionless snow covered hill, inclined at a 34 degree angle
if the sled weighs 73N find the force exerted on the rope by the child. answer in units of N
and find the force exerted on the sled by the hill, answer in units of N
This one the last questions on my mechanics paper, its hard to visualize without drawing a diagram i found, but i still can't solve it
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A tractor of 6000kg approaches a slope at arcsin(0.05) to the horizontal. The non-gravitational resistance to motion on this slope is 2000N. The tractor...
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A block weighing 73.7 N rests on a plane inclined at 24.3° to the horizontal. The coefficient of the static and kinetic frictions are 0.28 and 0.11 respectively.
A.) What is the minimum magnitude of the force F, parallel to the plane, that will prevent the block from...
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The velocity of a 2.10 kg block sliding down a frictionless inclined plane is found to be 1.13 m/s. 1.00 s later, it has a velocity of 4.13 m/s. What is the angle of the plane with respect to the horizontal?
2. The attempt at a solution
I drew a diagram and...
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A block of ice with mass 2.00kg slides 0.750m down an inclined plane that slopes downward at an angle of 36.9degrees below the horizontal.
f the block of ice starts from rest, what is its final speed? You can ignore friction.
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F=ma, trig...
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A block of ice with mass 2.00kg slides 0.70m down an inclined plane that slopes downward at an angle of 30degrees below the horizontal. If the block of ice starts from rest, what is its final speed?
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W = 1/2(m)(v2)^2 - 1/2(m)(v1)^2
The Attempt at a...
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the 2 kg ball is fired from point a with an Vo of 10 m/s up the smooth inclined plane. The angle is 37 degrees, it gives me the planes dimentions the ball rolls on, it is 1.5 m high and 2 m wide. It asks the distance in the x it lands. Also the velocity with which it...
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An Inclined plane with an inclination of \theta and a mass M has a body of mass m on top of it which is attached to a string; the string is light and passes over a pulley on top of the inclined plane and continues till it is firmly attached to a vertical wall.The friction...
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Does kinetic friction and static friction act upon a car traveling downhill (without acceleration by the car)?
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The Attempt at a Solution
Is it kinetic because the wheels rub against the surface and the car is in motion? But is it also static...
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1 An object is pushed up a smooth incline of 30 degrees with a speed of 4m/s. In seconds, how long will it take before the object stops and reverses direction?
Vf= Vo - at
Vf= Vo - at
0 = 4 - (9.8)t
t = 0.41s
I know this is wrong because the angle isn't accounted for, but...
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You are designing a delivery ramp for crates containing exercise equipment. The crates weighing 1490 N will move at a speed of 2.10 m/s at the top of a ramp that slopes downward at an angle 25.0°. The ramp exerts a kinetic friction force of 540 N on each crate, and the...
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I have a question for homework. The question reads:
A body of mass m=4.8 kg is standing on a ramp inclined in an angle of α=12 degrees. The static friction coeficient between the ramp and the body is μ=0.24. The ramp, which is inclined to the left, is in a train, which accelerates to...
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Rather than lifting a 225kg motorcycle 60cm on a truck, Samantha uses a 4m plank as an incline and only requires 345N to push up the ramp
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The Attempt at a Solution
To find work output, i did .6M X 2250N giving me 1350 J
To find work...
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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...
Suppose that an object is moving up an inclined plane, then stops and after moves down. There exists frictional force. How do you represent the frictional force when v=0, when it stops? Or it has a zero value? Thanks.
Two plane mirrors are inclined to each other at an angle. If a ray of light incident on the first mirror is parallel to second mirror, is reflected from the second mirror parallel to the first mirror then what is the angle between the two mirrors.
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A force of 15 N is required to pull up a body of mass 2 kg through a distance of 5m along an inclined plane making an angle of 30 degree with the horizontal. (If you need, I can give the figure with the question.) Calculate:
1)the work done by the force in pulling the body...
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This is a conceptual/logic question I have. I don't understand why for minimum P: P must be perpendicular to R; angle beta = psi_s. (please see attached picture). Once I can get my arms around that statement, I can solve the problem. Thanks for any logic help. Or if...
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There is an incline plane of Mass Ma, whose incline is at an angle theta with the horizontal. There is a block on this incline whose mass is Mb. There is no friction or gravity. There is a horizontal leftwards force applied on the...
Okay, so I've been working on an extended practical investigation. And I am a little stuck. Heres a brief overview:
Using a ramp(always at the same angle to the horizontal), and a truck and a stopwatch, I've timed the amount of time it takes for the truck to reach the bottom of the ramp, with...
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if the engineer trttles back so that the force exerted by the...
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A block of mass 2.1 kg is placed on a frictionless inclined ramp of mass 20.0 kg, with the angle θ= 31o as shown below.
http://s4.lite.msu.edu/res/msu/physicslib/msuphysicslib/09_Force_and_Motion/graphics/prob91_plane2.gif
Calculate the size of the net horizontal...
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so..first i am going to use...
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Can you guys give me some problems to solve, based on the picture provided?
You can choose which variables you want to be "given" -- I would just like some problems about rolling on an inclined plane to do to prepare for my final.
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I am working on an assignment and I honeslty am completely baffled with this question. I have no idea how to go about trying to figure it out as its purely conceptual based. If anyone has any info that might help, I am all ears. The problem is as follows and I am attaching the diagram as...
A block of mass 3.0 kg starts at a height 0.60 m on a plane that has an angle of 30 degrees from the horizontal. Upon reaching the bottom, the block slides along a horizontal surface. If the coefficient of friction on both surfaces is 0.20, how far does the block slide on the horizontal surface...
hello,i'm having some trouble with this problem.
a block with mass m,rests on a frictionless plane,inclined at angle alpha relative to the horizon.
what is the acceleration 'a' of the plane,if we don't want the block to slide down the plane?
here's what I've tried:
the x-axis will be parallel...
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I have a simple question:
How does the friction force that acts on a body that is laying on an inclined surface depend on the angle of the surface?
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How would you go about working out the downforce of an inclined plane if you know the surface area of the wing, the angle of the wing and the windspeed, and obviosly without doing anything in terms of practical work? Any help would be greatly appreciated
A 3kg block starts at the top of a 30 degree incline and slides 2m down the incline in 1.5 seconds.
a) Find acceleration of the block.
b) Find the coefficient of kinetic friction between the blcok and the incline.
For a) x = vot + 1/2at^2 --> a = 1.778m/s^2
For b) *here's where I'm having...
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Can someone please expain how to do this problem? I have spent about an hour today on this can and still can't figure it out.
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The average rate at which friction force does work...
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I am suppose to find the initial velocity of a car before it skids to a stop.
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A crate of mass m = 100 kg is pushed at constant speed up the frictionless ramp (theta= 27.0°) by a horizontal force F.
What is the magnitude of the force exerted by the ramp on the crate?
My x-y coordinate system has x+ pointing up the ramp.
I assume that the force in question is the...
given the folliwng information
the diagram attached shows a froce pulling a particel up an inclined slope. The force of -40j represents the weight of the particle and the frictional force down the slope has a mag of 65N.the displacement of the body AB, = (3i+4j)m. Calculate the frictional...
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a while back my physics teacher attempted to teach me inclined plane problems, however he only showed me once and I understood absolutely nothing. I was hoping that some kind fellow out there might be able to help me out, either by explaining me all the possible calculations involved...
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How far up the hill will it coast before starting to roll back down?
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Hi I have a problem that reads: A car drives downhill on a road that is inclined 20 degrees to the horizontal. At a speed on 30 m/s the driver suddenly brakes until the car stops (coefficent of kinetic friction = .8, coefficent of static friction = .9).
A. When all of the wheels are locked...
i think this is an easy question but i forgot how and the book doesn't want to tell me. can anyone tell me how to figure this out? thanks.
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