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Video Discussion: Does the Book Move? An Introductory Friction Problem

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Name: Does the Book Move? An Introductory Friction Problem
Category: Dynamics
Date Added: 2015-08-19
Submitter: Flipping Physics

Determine if the book moves or not and the acceleration of the book. It’s all about static and kinetic friction.
Want Lecture Notes? This is an AP Physics 1 topic.

Content Times:
0:08 Reading and translating the problem
0:57 5 Steps to help solve any Free Body Diagram problem
1:26 Drawing the Free Body Diagram
2:24 Sum the forces in the y-direction
3:22 Sum the forces in the x-direction
4:56 The answer to part (a)
6:22 Solving part (b)

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