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3 years ago

On earth, what forces tend to slow an object down?

Physics

2 answers:

Alexandra [31]3 years ago

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The forces which tend an object to slow down are friction and drag.

Tresset [83]3 years ago

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Friction tend to slow and object down

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When standing on the bathroom scale within the moving elevator, there are two forces acting on Henry's mass: Normal force and gravity.
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Normal force, can adopt any value needed to match the acceleration of the mass, according to Newton's 2nd Law.
Gravity (which we call weight near the Earth's surface) can be calculated as follows:

$F_{g} = m*g = 95 kg * 9.8 m/s2 = 930 N (1)$

According to Newton's 2nd Law, it must be met the following condition:

$F_{net} = F_{g} -F_{n} = m*a\\ F_{net} = 930 N - 830 N = 100 N = 95 Kg * a$

As the gravity is larger than normal force, this means that the acceleration is downward, so, we choose this direction as the positive.

Solving for a, we get:

$a =\frac{F_{net} }{m} =\frac{100 N}{95 kg} = 1.05 m/s2$

We can find the speed after the first 3.8 s (assuming a is constant), applying the definition of acceleration as the rate of change of velocity:

$v_{f} = a* t = 1.05 m/s * 3.8 m/s = 4.0 m/s$

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