A woman places her briefcase on the backseat of her car. As she drives to work, the car negotiates an unbanked curve in the road that can be regarded as an arc of a circle of radius 62.0 m. While on the curve, the speed of the car is 15.0 m/s at the instant the briefcase starts to slide across the backseat toward the side of the car. (a) What force causes the centripetal acceleration of the briefcase when it is stationary relative to the car? Under what condition does the briefcase begin to move relative to the car? (b) What is the coefficient of static friction between the briefcase and seat surface?
A woman places her briefcase on the backseat of her car. As she drives to work, the car negotiates an unbanked curve in the road that can be regarded as an arc of a circle of radius 62.0 m. While on the curve, the speed of the car is 15.0 m/s at the instant the briefcase starts to slide across the backseat toward the side of the car. (a) What force causes the centripetal acceleration of the briefcase when it is stationary relative to the car? Under what condition does the briefcase begin to move relative to the car? (b) What is the coefficient of static friction between the briefcase and seat surface?
Solution Summary: The author explains that the force of static friction is causing the centripetal acceleration of the briefcase when it is stationary relative to the car.
A woman places her briefcase on the backseat of her car. As she drives to work, the car negotiates an unbanked curve in the road that can be regarded as an arc of a circle of radius 62.0 m. While on the curve, the speed of the car is 15.0 m/s at the instant the briefcase starts to slide across the backseat toward the side of the car. (a) What force causes the centripetal acceleration of the briefcase when it is stationary relative to the car? Under what condition does the briefcase begin to move relative to the car? (b) What is the coefficient of static friction between the briefcase and seat surface?
A woman places her briefcase on the backseat of her car. As she drives to work, the car negotiates an unbacked curve in the road that can be regarded as an arc of a circle of a radius 62.0 m. While on the curve, the speed of the car is 15 m/s at the instant the briefcase starts to slide across the back seat toward the side of the car.
(A) What force causes the centripetal acceleration of the briefcase when it is stationary relative to the car? Under what condition does the briefcase begin to move relative to the car?
(B) What is the coefficient of static friction between the briefcase and seat surface?
A woman places her briefcase on the backseat of her car. As she drives to work, the car negotiates an unbanked curve in the road that can be regarded as an arc of a circle of radius 49.7 m. While on the curve, the speed of the car is 14.3 m/s at the instant the briefcase starts to slide across the backseat toward the side of the car.
(a) What force causes the centripetal acceleration of the briefcase when it is stationary relative to the car? Under what condition does the briefcase begin to move relative to the car?(b) What is the coefficient of static friction between the briefcase and seat surface?
A bobsled travels along a frictionless track. It crosses the starting line with a speed of v0=3.1 m/s. At an elevation of 21m below the starting line, it takes a turn along a flat section of track (that is not uphill or downhill). This curve is banked and has a radius of curvature of r=14 m. How many times their normal weight will a rider feel when going around this curve?
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