College Physics (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073512141
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-214-3

Chapter 2 - Section 2.7 - Contact Forces - Practice Problem - Page 51: 2.13

Answer

(a) FBD for the car is shown in the figure (b) Weight of the car $= 11 kN$ (c) Net force acting on the car$=f_{cr}-f_{ca}=3.3kN-1.2kN=2.1kN northward$

Work Step by Step

(a) Essentially there are four forces acting on the car: the gravitational force due to Earth on the car ($F_{cE}$) acting downward, the normal force on the car due to road ($N_{cr}$) acting upward, drag force exerted by the air on the car ($f_{ca}$) towards south and the frictional force on the car due to road ($f_{cr}$) towards north. (b) Since the car speeds up while moving north, there is a net force component in this direction. whereas, the net force is zero in the vertical direction. Therefore, $F_{cE}+N_{cr}=0$ we know that the weight of an object is the force of attraction of Earth on that object. hence, the weight of the car, $W_{c} =F_{cE}$ Therefore we can write, $W_{c}+N_{cr}=0$ or $W_{c}=-N_{cr}$ by considering the magnitude only, we can say $W_{c}=N_{cr}=11 kN$ (c) To speed up northward, the friction on the car due to road should dominate the drag force of air acting southward. Therefore, the net force acting on the car$=f_{cr}-f_{ca}=3.3kN-1.2kN=2.1kN northward$
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