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Homework Statement
In the disc brakes that slow down a car, a pair of brake pads squeezes a spinning rotor; friction between the pads and the rotor provides the torque that slows down the car. If the normal force that each pad exerts on a rotor is 85 N, and the coefficient of friction is 0.62, what is the frictional force on the rotor due to each of the pads? If this force acts 8.0 cm from the rotational axis, what is the magnitude of the torque on the rotor due to the pair of brake pads?
Homework Equations
Ffr = (mu)N
t = Fd
The Attempt at a Solution
For the frictional force i used the formula, friction force = 0.62(85) = 52.7 N each
For the torque, i used the force form above and multiplied it by 0.08 to get 4.216 Nm