In a pickup game of dorm shuffleboard, students crazed by final exams use a broom to propel a calculus book along the dorm hallway. If the 3.5 kg book is pushed from rest through a distance of 0.82 m by the horizontal 24 N force from the broom and then has a speed of 1.40 m/s, what is the coefficient of kinetic friction between the book and floor

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Answer:

[tex]\mu_{k} = 0.578 N[/tex]

Explanation:

given

mass = 3.5 kg

distance d = 0.82 m

horizontal  force = 24 N

coefficient of kinetic friction between the book and floor [tex]\mu _{k}[/tex] = ?

now by using Newton ' s second law

[tex]\Sigma f = ma[/tex]

for vertical motion

W- N = 0 ( where w is weight  and N is normal reaction)

W = N = mg .....(i)  ( m is mass of book and g is acceleration due to gravity )

for  horizontal motion

[tex]f_{h}- \mu_{k}N = ma .............(ii)[/tex]

so [tex]\mu_{k} =\frac{ f_{h}- ma}{N}[/tex]   ..........(iii)

from (i)

[tex]N = mg = 3.5 \times 9.8 = 34.3 N[/tex]

for acceleration a using kinematics equations

[tex]v^2 - u^2 = 2ad[/tex]

[tex]a =\frac{ v^2-u^2}{2d}[/tex]

[tex]a = \frac{(1.40)^2 - 0^2}{ 2 \times 0.82}\\a= 1.19 m/s^2[/tex]

now substitute the values in equation (iii) we get

[tex]\mu_{k} =\frac{24- 3.5 \times 1.19}{34.3}\\\\\mu_{k} = 0.578[/tex]