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Friction 3 PDF

1. The document provides 15 multi-part physics exercises involving concepts like friction, inclined planes, projectile motion, and more. 2. The exercises can be solved to find values like coefficients of friction, accelerations, distances and times of motion, and tensions in strings. 3. Key concepts covered include static and kinetic friction, motion with and against friction, projectile motion down inclines, and minimum times for motion and stopping distances.

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Friction 3 PDF

1. The document provides 15 multi-part physics exercises involving concepts like friction, inclined planes, projectile motion, and more. 2. The exercises can be solved to find values like coefficients of friction, accelerations, distances and times of motion, and tensions in strings. 3. Key concepts covered include static and kinetic friction, motion with and against friction, projectile motion down inclines, and minimum times for motion and stopping distances.

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EXERCISES

1. A body slipping on a rough horizontal plane moves with


a deceleration of 4.0 m/s . What is the coefficient of
2

kinetic friction between the block and the plane ?


2. A block is projected along a rough horizontal road with
a speed of 10 m/s. If the coefficient of kinetic friction is
0.10, how far will it travel before coming to rest ? 45°

3. A block of mass m is kept on a horizontal table. If the Figure 6-E1


static friction coefficient is µ, find the frictional force
acting on the block.
4. A block slides down an inclined surface of inclination 9. A body starts slipping down an incline and moves half
30° with the horizontal. Starting from rest it covers 8 m meter in half second. How long will it take to move the
in the first two seconds. Find the coefficient of kinetic next half meter ?
friction between the two. 10. The angle between the resultant contact force and the
5. Suppose the block of the previous problem is pushed normal force exerted by a body on the other is called the
down the incline with a force of 4 N. How far will the angle of friction. Show that, if λ be the angle of friction
−1
block move in the first two seconds after starting from and µ the coefficient of static friction, λ ≤ tan µ.
rest ? The mass of the block is 4 kg.
11. Consider the situation shown in figure (6-E2). Calculate
6. A body of mass 2 kg is lying on a rough inclined plane a) the acceleration of th .0 kg blocks, (b) the tension
(a)
of inclination 30°. Find the magnitude of the force in the string connecting the 1.0 kg blocks and (c) the
parallel to the incline needed to make the block move tension in the string attached to 0.50 kg.
(a) up the incline (b) down the incline. Coefficient of
static friction = 0.2. 1.0 kg 1.0 kg
7. Repeat part (a) of problem 6 if the push is applied
horizontally and not parallel to the incline.
8. In a children-park an inclined plane is constructed with
an angle of incline 45° in the middle part (figure 6-E1).
0.5 kg
Find the acceleration of a boy sliding on it if the friction
coefficient between the cloth of the boy and the incline
is 0.6 and g = 10 m/s .
2
12. If the tension in the string in figure (6-E3) is 16 N and
the acceleration of each block is 0.5 m/s , find the friction
2

coefficients at the two contacts with the blocks.

4 kg

2 kg 2
EXERCISES
30°

1. 0.4 Figure 6-E3


2. 50 m
3. zero 13. The friction coefficient between the table and the block
shown in figure (6-E4) is 0.2. Find the tensions in the
4. 0.11
two strings.
5. 10 m
5 kg
6. (a) 13 N (b) zero

5 kg
15 kg
7. 17.5 N
8. 2√2 m/s
2 Figure 6-E4

9. .
0 21 s
11.
1. ( 0.4 m/s
2
b .4 N
(b) (c)) .8 N 14. The friction coefficient between a road and the tyre of a
vehicle is 4/3. Find the maximum incline the road may
12. µ1 = 0.75, µ2 = 0.06 have so that once hard brakes are applied and the wheel
13. 96 N in the left string and 68 N in the right starts skidding, the vehicle going down at a speed of
14.
4. ° 36 km/hr is stopped within 5 m.
10 10 15. The friction coefficient between an athelete’s shoes and
15.
5.
3
s (b)
3
s the ground is 0.90. Suppose a superman wears these
shoes and races for 50 m. There is no upper limit on his
capacity of running at high speeds. (a) Find the
minimum time that he will have to take in completing
the 50 m starting from rest. (b) Suppose he takes exactly
this minimum time to complete the 50 m, what
minimum time will he take to stop ?

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