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Hello all,
I also have a calculus thread in the appropriate forum- I wanted to have a separate physics thread in order to make things a little tidier around here!
A quickie:
A 1,200kg car turns a corner at 8ms^-1 and travels along the arc of a circle radius 9m in the process. How large a horiz. force must the road exert on the tyres in order to hold the car in a circular path & what is the min. coefficient of friction such that the car does not slide?
Find horizontal force=
Tangential force= mv^2/r
(1200kg)(8m/s)^2/9 m= 8533.33N
To keep from sliding off: the horizontal force and coefficient friction must work together against the centripetal force!
Centripetal force= m[PLAIN]http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/circ/img24.gifr.
m[PLAIN]http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/circ/img24.gifr, taking 8^2 as http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/circ/img24.gif
1200*64*9=691,200N
If the centripetal force is 691,200N, the opposing force must be able to deal with this: it is (where u=coefficient of friction) uF.
u*8533.33N=691,200N
u=81
too large.
Another go:
ug=[mv^2]/r
ug=[mv^2]/r, hence u (9.813)=[ (1,200kg)(8m/s^-1)]/9
=869.59
This seems like far too large of a coefficient of friction, so let's go about it by first principles.
u=Ff/FN. Ff=ma, a=rw^2
a=(9)(8)^2=576kg/ms^-1
m=1200kg, as above, so 1200kg *576kg/ms^-1= 691,200
Ff=691,200N
FN=Mg, 1200*9.813=11775.6
u=Ff/FN, so 691,200/111775.6= 6.183
This is still too large.. shouldn't coefficient of friction be LESS than one, otherwise it would slide right off the road??
The answer is lurking, but it's being a bit stubborn...help very greatly appreciated!
I also have a calculus thread in the appropriate forum- I wanted to have a separate physics thread in order to make things a little tidier around here!
A quickie:
A 1,200kg car turns a corner at 8ms^-1 and travels along the arc of a circle radius 9m in the process. How large a horiz. force must the road exert on the tyres in order to hold the car in a circular path & what is the min. coefficient of friction such that the car does not slide?
Find horizontal force=
Tangential force= mv^2/r
(1200kg)(8m/s)^2/9 m= 8533.33N
To keep from sliding off: the horizontal force and coefficient friction must work together against the centripetal force!
Centripetal force= m[PLAIN]http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/circ/img24.gifr.
m[PLAIN]http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/circ/img24.gifr, taking 8^2 as http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/circ/img24.gif
1200*64*9=691,200N
If the centripetal force is 691,200N, the opposing force must be able to deal with this: it is (where u=coefficient of friction) uF.
u*8533.33N=691,200N
u=81
too large.
Another go:
ug=[mv^2]/r
ug=[mv^2]/r, hence u (9.813)=[ (1,200kg)(8m/s^-1)]/9
=869.59
This seems like far too large of a coefficient of friction, so let's go about it by first principles.
u=Ff/FN. Ff=ma, a=rw^2
a=(9)(8)^2=576kg/ms^-1
m=1200kg, as above, so 1200kg *576kg/ms^-1= 691,200
Ff=691,200N
FN=Mg, 1200*9.813=11775.6
u=Ff/FN, so 691,200/111775.6= 6.183
This is still too large.. shouldn't coefficient of friction be LESS than one, otherwise it would slide right off the road??
The answer is lurking, but it's being a bit stubborn...help very greatly appreciated!
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