PHYSCS SCI&ENG/MOD PHYS V3&MOD MSTG
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Chapter 7, Problem 39EAP
FIGURE P7.39 shows a block of mass m resting on a 20° slope. The block has coefficients of friction µs= 0.80 and µk= 0.50 with the surface. It is connected via a massless string over a massless, frictionless pulley to a hanging block of mass 2.0 kg.
a. What is the minimum mass m that will stick and not slip?
b. If this minimum mass is nudged ever so slightly, it will start being pulled up the incline. What acceleration will it have?
FIGURE P7.39
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