What Causes a Rod to Slip on a Moving Truck?

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we have a truck in our game we have a rod against the wall of that truck, and we know the acceleration of truck when the rod start slipping... we just want to know what is acceleration and of rod when it start slipping.

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miladiri said:
we have a truck in our game we have a rod against the wall of that truck, and we know the acceleration of truck when the rod start slipping... we just want to know what is acceleration and of rod when it start slipping.

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hm...
we will have to apply a pseudo force on the rod. so the acceleration for the bottom of the rod
in contact with the truck will try to move backwards with (a)accelaration.
well...thats the idea I am getting