Sliding Definition and 716 Threads

A driver traveling down a 4.6 degree incline slams on his breaks, coming to rest 30m later. If the coeficient of kinetic friction between the tires and the road were 0.45, how fast was he initially traveling? The only way I can think of solving this problem is to differentiate distance to get...

Hello, Homework Statement I am asked to show that the time it would take a bead to slide down a smooth cord, positioned at an angle beta wrt the vertical axis, is independent on that angle (between the cord and the axis). The bead starts its slide from rest. Homework Equations The...

Homework Statement A boy is initially seated on the top of a hemispherical ice mound of radius r=13.8m. He begins to slide down the ice, with an initial speed vi=3m/sec. Approximate the ice as being frictionless. At what height does the boy lose contact with the ice? Homework Equations...

Hi all. Reading on several books and papers, I found that the motion of a wheel moving on a flat surface are given by (assume that positive torques are counter-clockwise and the positive direction of the motion is toward the right direction): m \dot v=F J \dot ω=-rF+T for T<0, where m...

Homework Statement If a block is let go from the top of a wedge elevated at a certain angle and slides down will it reach the bottom at the same time as if the wedge was moving and then we let the block slide? so neglect friction and air resistance and basically just let the block slide down...

Homework Statement A 10.0-kg mass is placed on a 25.0o degree incline and friction keeps it from sliding. The coefficient of static friction in this case is 0.580, and the coefficient of sliding friction is 0.520. The mass is given a shove causing it to slide down the incline. Homework...

Homework Statement A small mass M attached to a string slides in a circle (Y) on a frictionless horizontal table, with the force F providing the necessary tension (see figure). The force is then decreased slowly and then maintained constant when M travels around in circle (X). The radius of...

Homework Statement A 250-kg board, 2.4 m in length slides broadside along the surface of ice with a speed of 21m/s . A 63 kg man at rest grabs one end as it goes past and hangs on as both he and the beam go spinning down the ice. Assume frictionless motion, and assume that the man can be...

Homework Statement Suppose a truck is going up a hill and the maximum acceleration while braking is 9 m/s2. Find the minimum angle of the hill such that the driver can brake at maximum rate without the refrigerator on back slipping. (coefficient of static friction between truck and...

Homework Statement When a car is traveling at 22 m/s on level ground, the stopping distance is found to be 22 m. This distance is measured by pushing hard on the brakes so that the wheels skid on the pavement. The same car is driving at the same speed down an incline that makes an angle of...

Homework Statement A ladder of length l and mass m leans against the side of a house, making an angle θ with the vertical. Assume that the ladder is free to slide at the point where it touches the side of the house (there is no significant friction). Find an expression for the normal force...

Homework Statement Two different ideal gases are separated by a sliding barrier that can move vertically. The gas in the upper chamber 1 has n moles of material, whilst the gas in the lower chamber 2 has 3n moles of material. At T0 the weight of the barrier is such that the volumes of the two...

A box slides down a frictionless plane that makes an angle of 35 degrees with the horizontal. A horizontal force of half the box's weight presses the box against the plane. What is the box's acceleration? I'm confused as to what kind of effect would a horizontal force have on an object...

Homework Statement Hello all, kinda angry at myself for posting this but my brain has hit a brick wall. This is an easy problem too... anyway. A frictioness ramp of mass M and incline θ sits on a frictionless surface. A block of mass m sits on the ramp. What horizontal force F must be applied...

Homework Statement The two blocks (with m=16kg and M=88kg) shown in Fig. 6-56 are not attached. The coefficient of static friction between the blocks is \mustat=0.38, but the surface beneath the larger block is frictionless. what is the minimum magnitude of the horizontal force \vec{F}...

I'm going through the problems at the back of a chapter in my physics book where all the challenging questions are. I'm able to solve most and comprehend the rest, however, there's one that's introducing a new concept that I'm not quite sure how to think about. Its a situation where I'm...

Homework Statement A hockey puck is sliding across a frozen pond with an initial speed of 7.5 m/s. It comes to rest after sliding a distance of 23.7 m. What is the coefficient of kinetic friction between the puck and the ice? v0x = initial speed = 7.5 m/s vfx = final speed = 0 m/s Δx = x...

Homework Statement http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/493/capturemml.png The Attempt at a Solution Here is my attempt. I assumed that both the man and the box would slide down the incline. (The box is the left diagram and the man is on the right)...

For a unit mass sliding down the stationary curve y = f(x) at the point (x, y), we can consider our mass to be sliding down a stationary inclined plane which is tangential to the curve at the point (x, y). The slope of this inclined plane is thus \frac{dy}{dx}(x). For the remainder of this...

Homework Statement The picture shows a rotating platform that serves as a playground merry go round. The platform rotates on low-friction bearings about its center axis. It has a radius of 2.0 meters, and its moment of inertia about the center axis is 200 kg m2. Suppose that the...

Homework Statement A block is given an initial speed of 3m/s up a 22° inclined plane. How far up the plane will it go? How much time elapses before it returns to its starting point? Homework Equations D = 1/2at2 a = Δv/t Vf2 = Vi2+ 2a*d The Attempt at a Solution The Vy is 1.12m/s...

Homework Statement A block of mass 2.0kg rests on top of another block of mass 10.0kg that itself rests on a frictionless table. The largest frictional force that can develop between the two blocks is 16N. Calculate the largest force with which the bottom block can be pulled so that both...

Hi all. I'm struggling to understand how and where the friction forces that appear on the motion of a wheel on a flat surface, but I don't know if I understand it properly. I hope that you can help me. I try to describe the problem as follows. When a wheel is not moving, and there are no...

Homework Statement A 11 kg box slides 4.0 m down the frictionless ramp shown in the figure , then collides with a spring whose spring constant is 190 N/m. The angle of the ramp is 30°. What is the maximum compression of the spring? Homework Equations Ei=mgh Ef=1/2kx^2 The Attempt...

Homework Statement A 1.18 kg block slides across a horizontal surface directly toward a massless spring with spring constant 5,803 N/m. The surface is frictionless except for a rough patch of length 0.42 m that has coefficient of kinetic friction 0.367. The initial velocity of the block is...

Homework Statement A crate of fruit with a mass of 33.5kg and a specific heat capacity of 3650 J/kg*K slides 8.20m down a ramp inclined at an angle of 37.6 degrees below the horizontal. If an amount of heat equal to the magnitude of the work done by friction is absorbed by the crate of...

Homework Statement A block slides down a hill. The hill has a gentle 20° slope with respect to the horizontal. The block has an initial speed of 6 m/s. If the block comes to a stop after traveling a total distance of 11 m along the slope, what is the coefficient of kinetic friction between the...

Homework Statement A bead is free to slide along a rigid, straight wire, whilst the wire is rotating at angular velocity ω about the z-axis and is tilted away from the z-axis at angle α. I have the equation of motion (EOM) and need to find an explicit solution for the distance of the bead along...

For an object sliding on a horizontal surface, there is a dive effect caused by friction. This means that the front edge of the object is "diving" towards the surface and the back edge has some lift. As a result the friction will be stronger in the front edge of the object, which typically...

First I would like to appologize for my english, I'm from belgium and I don't often use it to speak about physics. Second, I don't know if I'm in the good thread to speak about that. Ok, I need a little help, I have a problem where an object slidind on a incline plan. I would like to know...

Homework Statement The 500lb box is released from rest in the position shown. The wall and ground are smooth. Determine (a) the angular acceleration of the box, and (b) the reactions at corners A and B at the instant after release. **G = center of mass **L = length of side = 2.5ft **phi =...

*****Homework Statement **** Two blocks, A and B, are sliding down an inclined (20 degrees) plane. Block A is sliding in front of block B with both of them touching. The blocks slide from a distance of 6.50m from the bottom (along the inclined plane, not the surface the plane rests on)...

Homework Statement There's a problem that I don't even know really where to start. It seems extremely complex to me. Basically there's a reverted cone of mass M with a mass of mass m that can slides over it without friction. But there's a constraint of motion for the particule, it must stay...

Homework Statement A box slides across a frictionless floor with an initial speed v = 3.2 m/s. It encounters a rough region where the coefficient of friction is µk = 0.1. If instead the strip is only 1.56734693877551 m long, with what speed does the box leave the strip? Homework Equations...

Homework Statement A small mass m slides down from rest at the top of a frictionless spherical surface of radius R=.5 meters. What is the speed of the particle at position x where it loses contact with the surface, and velocity makes an angle of θ=48.2 with the vertical? The answer...

°Homework Statement The figure shows two boxes, A and B, on a ramp. The ramp forms a 20° angle with the horizontal. Box A is in front of Box B and they are touching. Box A is 2 meters from the bottom of the ramp. The mass of A is 3 kg and the mass of B is 10.5 kg. The coefficient of kinetic...

My assignment is to create a sliding door with working motor,mechanical and structure calculations. However I keep having trouble when finding the appropriate motor for the sliding door movement. The doors are both 80kg (Which is 784 Newtons). The entire weight is taken is supported by the track...

I'm on pg 56 of Thorton's Classical Dynamics book and I see this: Imgur Link Two questions: 1) Where does the 2 go on the second to last equation. 2) Why v0^2 and not v0 on the integral?

My assignment is to create a sliding door with working motor,mechanical and structure calculations. However I keep having trouble when finding the appropriate motor for the sliding door movement. The doors are both 80kg (Which is 784 Newtons). The entire weight is taken is supported by the track...

Homework Statement block A slides down an 8 m frictionless ramp that is curved 30 degrees above the horizontal. it then crosses a 4m surface that has a coefficient of friction that is 0.20. it then hits a ball and continues moving at 3 m/s. the ball is suspended from a string, kinda...

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Homework Statement A block of mass 4.2 kg which has an initial velocity of 3.3 m/s at time t=0, slides on a horizontal surface. If a constant friction force of 10.2N is exerted on the block by the surface, what is the acceleration? Homework Equations Work Energy Theorum? .5 m vo2 -...

A block of mass m is positioned at the top of a quarter-circle ramp with radius R and friction coefficient μ. To find the velocity v at the bottom, I did the force summation equations in the n- and t-directions and came up with: n: N - mgsinθ = mv^2/R t: mgcosθ - μN = ma I then solve for...

I went to ask my teacher for extra help and we were doing a problem about an object sliding down a ramp. When I calculated the Fnet I added all the forces together acting on the box but she said that you only take into account the horizontal forces. Any clarification would be much appreciated!

Homework Statement A metal bar with length L, mass m, and resistance R is placed on frictionless metal rails that are inclined at an angle \phi above the horizontal. The rails have negligible resistance. A uniform magnetic field of magnitude is directed downward in the figure B. The bar is...

I was wondering if someone could help me see where I am messing this up: Lets say we have our train with a relative velocity of .5c, Also suppose it is .816ls tall, and that there is a mirror mounted on the floor, another mirror directly above it, and a third mirror about .577m to the rear and...

Homework Statement "A bead with mass m slides without friction on a wire which lies in a vertical plane near the earth. The wire lies in the x-z plane and is bent into a shape conforming to the parabola az = x2, where a is a positive known constant. (X is horizontal and z is vertical) The...

Homework Statement In the diagram below, a block of mass M=17 kg slides down a frictionless inclined plane and collides elastically with another block of mass m=4 kg. If the mass at the top of the wedge is initially at a height of 6 m above the horizontal plane, what is the velocity of m after...

1. Homework Statement [/b] This is a pretty simple calculus problem, but I can't figure out why my method fails. A ladder 20 feet long is leaning against the wall of a house. The base of the ladder is pulled away from the wall at a rate of 4 ft/s. Consider the triangle formed by the side of...

Homework Statement A box of mass m with an initial velocity of v0 slides down a plane, inclined at θ with respect to the horizontal. The coefficient of kinetic friction is μ. The box stops after sliding a distance x. How much work is done by friction? Homework Equations...