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The Sliding Block Problem without friction

Draw a free-body diagram and make a table showing all the forces in two directions.

A slippery box of mass M=10 kg sits on a ramp of angle theta=20 degrees.

  1. Draw a set of coordinate axes which are tilted to match the ramp, so that the x-axis goes parallel to the slope and the y-axis goes perpendicular to it.
  2. What is the net force on the box in each of these tilted directions?
  3. What is the acceleration of the box down the ramp?
  4. The box is held at the top of a ramp and released. It slides down to the bottom in 24 seconds. If the sloped surface of the ramp is 12 meters long, what is its tilt? Sorry, we could not find this page | RIT CIS - Center for Imaging Science

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