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If you press an apple crate against a wall so hard that the crate
cannot slide down the wall, what is the direction of (a) the static
frictional force on the crate from the wall and (b) the normal
force on the crate from the wall? If you increase your push,
what happens to (c) fs, (d) FN, and (e) fs,max?
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