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Video Discussion: Determining the Static Coefficient of Friction between Tires and Snow

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Name: Determining the Static Coefficient of Friction between Tires and Snow
Category: Dynamics
Date Added: 2015-10-08
Submitter: Flipping Physics

We use Newton’s Second Law and Uniformly Accelerated Motion to experimentally determine the Static Coefficient of Friction between Tires and Snow.
Want Lecture Notes? This is an AP Physics 1 topic.

Content Times:
0:09 Reading and translating the problem
1:03 Visualizing the experiment
1:16 Where to begin?
1:45 Drawing the Free Body Diagram
3:09 Summing the forces in the y-direction
4:47 Summing the forest in the x-direction
6:24 Uniformly Accelerated Motion
7:35 Solving for the coefficient of static friction
8:18 All 9 trials

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