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cjavier
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The question: Two packages have just started sliding down a ramp that forms an angle of 30 degrees with the horizontal. They are connected with a rope. Package A is 6m up along the ramp, with a mass of 4 kg and a coefficient of kinetic friction of 0.3. Package B is directly above 4 m further up the ramp, with mass of 8kg and a coefficient of kinetic friction of 0.2. The packages are placed such that if B began moving and A did not, B would have to go through A to move down, i.e they cannot pass each other on the side.
1) Find the tension in the rope just after they start sliding.
2) Find the velocity of both packages when package A arrives at the bottom of the ramp.
I am not sure how to approach this problem. My teacher wrote on my test that T=0 because the rope is slack. He then wrote that the final velocity of package A was 5.5m/s (although I cannot read his handwriting) and that the final velocity of package B was 7.7m/s.
Please help! My approach was to sum the forces in the direction of the ramp for each box like so:
BOX A: ƩFx = mbox-aa = mgsin(30) - T - μkmgcos(30)
BOX B: ƩFx = mbox-ba = mgsin(30) + T - μkmgcos(30)
But I could not derive T becoming 0. Thank you all.
1) Find the tension in the rope just after they start sliding.
2) Find the velocity of both packages when package A arrives at the bottom of the ramp.
I am not sure how to approach this problem. My teacher wrote on my test that T=0 because the rope is slack. He then wrote that the final velocity of package A was 5.5m/s (although I cannot read his handwriting) and that the final velocity of package B was 7.7m/s.
Please help! My approach was to sum the forces in the direction of the ramp for each box like so:
BOX A: ƩFx = mbox-aa = mgsin(30) - T - μkmgcos(30)
BOX B: ƩFx = mbox-ba = mgsin(30) + T - μkmgcos(30)
But I could not derive T becoming 0. Thank you all.