A small car and a large pickup truck are on the same road. Both have tires made of the same material, but the maximum force of friction is greater for the truck. Why is this true?

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A: Given: mass attached with string is m=22kg  The system is at rest

Q: Two packing crates of masses 10.0 kg and 5.00 kg are connected by a light string that passes over a…

A: Given:-  Two packing crates of masses m1=10.0 kg and m2=5.00 kg are connected by a light string that…

Q: A horizontal force F is applied at the top of an equilateral triangular block having · mass m and…

A: Given- A horizontal force F is applied at the top of an equilateral triangular block having mass m.…

Q: Suppose you try to move a crate full of exercise equipment by tying a rope around it and pulling…

A: Weight of the crate =500 N Coefficient of friction between the ground and crate μ=0.40 Angle made by…

Q: The cabinet has a mass of 100kg. It therefore has a normal force of _________ N and a friction force…

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Q: Three rectangular boxes are stacked on top of each other. All the boxes have the same mass of 1.2…

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Q: A driver in a car traveling at 23 m/s slams on the brakes and skids to a stop. If the coefficient of…

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Q: A block of weight 25 kg is resting on an inclined surface with dimensions of 4 meter wide and 3 m…

A: Analyze the free body diagram of the given situation. Note- Consider the rightward direction along…

Q: A race car driver is told that her new tires will increase the frictional force between the tires…

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Q: A child pushes a table of mass 40 kg with a force of 200 N, the table is on a rough flat floor with…

A: Given: The mass (m) of the table is 40 kg. The force (F) applied by the child is 200 N. The friction…

Q: A crate of mass 10.0 kg is pulled up a rough 20°- incline. The pulling force is 100 N parallel to…

A: Given:mass of crate, m = 10 kgpulled up through 20° inclinationpulling force = 100 N ( parallel to…

Q: A horizontal shove of at least 200.0 N is required to start moving a 800.0-N crate initially at rest…

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Q: A skier slides down a hill in a straight line. The hill is 60m high and the coefficient of kinetic…

A: Given. M = 70 kg a = 20° u = 0.1 h = 60m

Q: Two ropes are supporting a slab of wood. If another weight is put on the slab in between the two…

A: Correct option is (d) The tension on one of the ropes is half of the object 's weight.

Q: 10.0 kg mass rests on an incline that is 30 m long and 15 m high. The coefficient of friction…

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Q: When a skier skis down a hill, the normal force exerted on the skier by the hill is  A. zero B.…

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Q: A 80 kg bobsled is pushed along a horizontal surface by two people.  After the bobsled is pushed a…

A: mass, m = 80 kg  distance, s = 5 m  initial speed, u =0 m/s  final speed, v = 8 m/s

Q: A person stands on the ball of one foot. The normal force due to the ground pushing up on the ball…

A: Given Data:-  The Normal force due to the ground pushing up on the ball of the foot N = 750 N  The…

Q: An object sitting at rest on a level surface has a weight and a normal force of 200 N. The…

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Q: a 60 kg object is moving at 20m/s when a force brings the object to rest in 0.050 seconds. of the…

A: Given, mass of the object (m) = 60 kg  Initial speed (u) = 20 m/s  Final speed (v) = 0 m/s  Time…

Q: A box is pulled at a constant speed, v, along a horizontal surface with a kinetic coefficient of…

A: Given data: Constant speed =v Constant horizontal force=f The kinetic coefficient of friction is…

Q: A person stands on the ball of one foot. The normal force due to the ground pushing up on the ball…

A: N=750 N  FA= 2246 N

Q: A 720.0 kg boulder is raised from a quarry 145 m deep by a long chain having a mass of 570.0 kg.…

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Q: A block -and-tackle pulley hoist is suspended in a warehouse by ropes of lengths 2 m and 3 m. The…

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Q: 50kg steel file cabinet is in the back of a dump truck.  The truck’s bed, also made of steel, is…

A: The size of the static friction when the truck bed is tilted is, fs=mgsinθ=50 kg9.8 m/s2sin20°=168 N…

Q: A box is pulled at a constant speed, v, along a horizontal surface with a kinetic coefficient of…

A: According to Newton's First Law of Motion, an external force is required to change the motion of the…

Q: A box rests on a horizontal surface. You apply a force on the box of F = 100 N at an angle, θ, below…

A: Force of F=100 N is applied on the box at an some angle θ. The box which is of mass m moves forward…

Q: How can a friction coefficient be found in a physics problem?

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Q: A truck is traveling down a road with a 3-percent grade at a speed of 90 kph when the brakes are…

A: 3-percent grade means 3m up on every 100 m forward motion, so angle is tanθ=3100θ=tan-1(0.03)=1.720…

Q: A 46.0-kg crate was pushed 10.4 m across a rough floor without acceleration by two people, with an…

A: Frictional force is the opposing force formed between two surfaces that are trying to move in the…

Q: static friction between his shoes and the floor is ps = 0.45. The uniform crate has a mass of 150…

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Q: skier wishes to build a rope tow to pull herself up a ski hill that is inclined at 150 with the…

A: Given that                     The mass of the skier's (m) = 54kg                      He has the…

Q: A cart for hauling ore out of a gold mine has a mass of 431 kg, including its load. The cart runs…

A: It is given that, m=431 kgθ1=4.85oF=445 Ns=185 mθ2=14.9oμ=0.0173g=9.81 m/s2

Q: A physics textbook is placed on an inclined slope with an adjustable angle a. The coefficients of…

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Q: The force that causes the object to move back toward its equilibrium point is called a(n) none of…

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Q: TC (C) UOD A 40.-newton object requires 5.0 newtons to start moving over a horizontal surface. The…

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Q: In the back of the truck is a 200kg box that has a coefficient of static friction of 0.8 and a…

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Q: oard and you must slide your weighted disk 8m across the floor where it will come to rest on the…

A: Given:- The mass of the disk m =0.8 kg. The initial push of velocity u = 4 m/s.  The disk move…

Q: A 4 kg object starts from rest from the top of an rough 30o incline and slides 3.0 m down the…

A: Given:- m = 4 kg t= 2 s θ =30o slides 3m down.

Q: A truck is traveling down a road with a 3-percent grade at a speed of 55 mi/h when the brakes are…

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Q: A constant applied force F, of 11.0 N pushes a box with a mass m = 8.00 kg a distance x = 15.0 m…

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Q: A child on a sled starts from rest at the top of a 15.0° slope. If the trip to the bottom takes 15.2…

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Q: A heavy sled is being pulled by two people, as shown in the figure. The coefficient of static…

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Newton’s Third Law of Motion

The horse pulls the cart and the cart pulls the horse in response as per Newton third law. So the big question is, “Don’t the two forces cancel each other? How does the cart accelerate?”