What does slope mean physically
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Answer:
The friction force is 250 N
Explanation:
The desk is moving at constant velocity. This means that its acceleration is zero: a = 0. Newton's second law states that the resultant of the forces acting on the desk is equal to the product between mass (m) and acceleration (a):
In this case, we know that the acceleration is zero: a = 0, so also the resultant of the forces must be zero:
(1)
We are only interested in the forces acting along the horizontal direction, since it is the direction of motion. There are two forces acting in this direction:
- the pull, forward, F = 250 N
- the friction force, backward,
Given (1), we have
So the force of friction must be equal to the pull:
Answer:
The time taken will be 0.553 seconds.
Explanation:
We should start off by finding the force exerted by the rope on the 3kg weight in this case.
Weight of 5kg mass = 5 * 9.81 = 49.05 N
Weight of 3kg mass = 3 * 9.81 = 29.43 N
The force acting upward on the 3kg mass will equal the weight of the 5kg mass. Thus the resultant force acting on the 3kg mass is:
Total force = 49.05 - 29.43 = 19.62 N (upwards)
We can now find the acceleration:
F = m * a
19.62 = 3 * a
a = 6.54 m/s^2
We now use the following equation of motion to get the time taken to travel 1 meter:
t = 0.553 seconds