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Friction
Friction Problem Situations
Chapter 5.2 and 5.3
Review of Forces
• Remember to draw your free body
diagram
• F=ma
• Weight=mg
• Practice problem: If you lift a stuffed
suitcase with a force of 105N, with an
acceleration of 0.705 m/s.
• What is the mass of the suitcase?
• What is the weight?
Your Weight seems different when you
accelerate
• When you are in an elevator how do
you feel when you are going up?
• How about when it is going down?
• Newton’s Law explains this…
• You feel the normal force that is pushed
up from the floor. This is what weight
feels like
• When the floor exerts a force greater
than your weight, you feel heavy.
• This is called apparent weight.
Forces in Springs
• A compressed or stretched spring
exerts a force when it tries to return
to its starting place.
• The amount of stretch in a spring
depends on the force you apply.
• This changes the length of the spring
(either compressed or stretched)
• Use Hooke’s Law to solve these
problems
• Force=spring constant X change in
length
Spring Constant
•
•
•
•
F=kx
K=spring constant
N/m
The larger the spring constant, the larger
the force exerted by the spring.
• The larger the change in length, the larger
the force exerted by the spring.
• Problem: what is the force required to
cause 3.4cm of stretch of a spring with a
spring constant of 21 N/m
Friction
• Friction Ff is a force that resists motion
• Friction involves objects in contact
with each other.
• Friction must be overcome before
motion occurs.
• Friction is caused by the uneven
surfaces of the touching objects. As
surfaces are pressed together, they
tend to interlock and offer resistance to
being moved over each other.
Microscopic Friction
Surface Roughness
Magnified section of a
polished steel surface
showing surface bumps
about 5 x 10-7 m (500 nm)
high, which corresponds
to several thousand
atomic diameters.
Adhesion
Computer graphic from
a simulation showing gold
atoms (below) adhering to
the point of a sharp nickel
probe (above) that has
been in contact with the
gold surface.
Friction
• Frictional forces are always in the
direction that is opposite to the
direction of motion or to the net force
that produces the motion.
• Friction acts parallel to the surfaces in
contact.
Types of Friction
• Static friction: maximum frictional force
between stationary objects.
• Until some maximum value is reached and
motion occurs, the frictional force is
whatever force is necessary to prevent
motion.
• Static friction will oppose a force until such
time as the object “breaks away” from the
surface with which it is in contact.
• The force that is opposed is that
component of an applied force that is
parallel to the surface of contact.
Types of Friction
• The magnitude of the static friction force Ffs
has a maximum value which is given by:
Ff s  s  FN
• where μs is the coefficient of static friction
and FN is the magnitude of the normal force
on the body from the surface.
Types of Friction
• Sliding or kinetic friction: frictional force
between objects that are sliding with respect
to one another.
• Once enough force has been applied to the object
to overcome static friction and get the object to
move, the friction changes to sliding (or kinetic)
friction.
• Sliding (kinetic) friction is less than static friction.
• If the component of the applied force on the object
(parallel to the surface) exceeds Ffs then the
magnitude of the opposing force decreases rapidly
to a value Fk given by:
Fk  k  FN
where μk is the coefficient of kinetic friction.
Static Friction
The static frictional force keeps an object from
starting to move when a force is applied. The static
frictional force has a maximum value, but may take on
any value from zero to the maximum, depending on
what is needed to keep
the sum of forces zero.
Types of Friction
• From 0 to the maximum value of the static
frictional force Fs in the figure, the applied
force is resisted by the static frictional force
until “breakaway”.
• Then the sliding (kinetic) frictional force Fk
is approximately constant.
Types of Friction
• Static and sliding friction are
dependent on:
• The nature of the surfaces in contact.
Rough surfaces tend to produce more
friction.
• The normal force (Fn) pressing the
surfaces together; the greater Fn is, the
more friction there is.
Types of Friction
• Rolling friction: involves one object
rolling over a surface or another
object.
• Fluid friction: involves the
movement of a fluid over an object
(air resistance or drag in water) or
the addition of a lubricant (oil,
grease, etc.) to change sliding or
rolling friction to fluid friction.
Coefficient of Friction
• Coefficient of friction (): ratio of
the frictional force to the normal
force pressing the surfaces together.
 has no units.
• Static:
F
μs 
fs
Fn
• Sliding (kinetic): μ  Ffk
k
Fn
A Model of Friction
Friction
Static Friction
Kinetic Friction
Fpush  f k  k  FN
Kinetic Friction and Speed
The kinetic frictional force is also
independent of the relative speed of the
surfaces, and of their area of contact.
Rolling Friction
Horizontal Surface – Constant Speed
•Constant speed:
a = O m/s2.
•The normal force
pressing the
surfaces together is
the weight; Fn = Fw
ΣFx  m  a
Fx  Ff  m  a
Ff
Ff
μk 

Fn Fw
Fx  Ff  0 N
Ff  μ k  Fw
Fx  Ff
Fx  Ff  μ k  Fw
Horizontal Surface: a > O m/s2
Fx  Ff
ΣFx  m  a
Fx  Ff  m  a
Fn  Fw
Ff
Ff
μk 

Fn Fw
Ff  μ k  Fw
Horizontal Surface: a > O m/s2
• If solving for:
• Fx: Fx  m  a  Ff
Fx  m  a  μ k  Fw
Fx  m  a  μ k  m  g
• F f:
Ff  Fx  m  a
• a:
Fx  Ff
a
m
Horizontal Surface: Skidding to a
Stop or Slowing Down (a < O m/s2)
• The frictional force is responsible for the
negative acceleration.
• Generally, there is no Fx.
 Ff  m  a
Fn  Fw
Ff
Ff
μk 

Fn Fw
Ff  μ k  Fw
Horizontal Surface: Skidding to a
Stop or Slowing Down (a < O m/s2)
• Most common use involves finding
acceleration with a velocity equation
and finding k:
2
2
v f  v i  (2  a  Δx )
2
Δx  (v i  t )  (0.5  a  t )
v f  v i  (a  t )
• Acceleration will be negative
because the speed is decreasing.
Horizontal Surface: Skidding to a
Stop or Slowing Down (a < O m/s2)
Ff
Ff
m  a a
μk 



Fn
Fw
mg
g
• The negative sign for acceleration a is
dropped because k is a ratio of forces
that does not depend on direction.
• Maximum stopping distance occurs when
the tire is rotating. When this happens,
a = -s·g.
• Otherwise, use a = -k·g to find the
acceleration, then use a velocity equation
to find distance, time, or speed.