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Force Calculations in Various Scenarios

The document contains a series of physics problems related to forces, motion, and friction involving various scenarios such as a box on a ramp, a skidding car, a skier on a slope, and a helicopter in flight. Each problem requires calculations to determine forces, distances, accelerations, and coefficients of friction based on given parameters. The problems involve concepts such as normal force, tension in cables, and net force affecting motion.

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Force Calculations in Various Scenarios

The document contains a series of physics problems related to forces, motion, and friction involving various scenarios such as a box on a ramp, a skidding car, a skier on a slope, and a helicopter in flight. Each problem requires calculations to determine forces, distances, accelerations, and coefficients of friction based on given parameters. The problems involve concepts such as normal force, tension in cables, and net force affecting motion.

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1. A box is sitting on a ramp angled at 20°. If the box weighs 50 N, what is the normal force on the box?

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2. A car skids to a stop after initially going 30.0 m/s. k = 0.800. How far does the car go before stopping?

3. A 65-kg skier is coasting downhill on a 15° slope. Assuming the coefficient of friction is that of waxed wood on
snow, what is the skier’s acceleration?
4. While hauling firewood to the house, you pull a 100-kg wood-filled wagon across level ground at a constant velocity.
You pull the handle with a force of 230 N at 30° above the horizontal. What is the coefficient of friction between the
wagon and the ground?

5. The helicopter in the drawing is moving horizontally to the right at a constant velocity. The weight of the helicopter is
53,800 N. The lift force L generated by the rotating blade makes an angle of 21.0° with respect to the vertical. What is
the magnitude of the lift force?

6. A stoplight is suspended by two cables over a street. Weight of the light is 110 N and the cables make a 122° angle
with each side of the light. Find the tension in each cable.
7. A mountain climber, in the process of crossing between two cliffs by a rope, pauses to rest. She weighs 535 N. Find
the tensions in the rope to the left and to the right of the mountain

8. A 1380-kg car is moving due east with an initial speed of 27.0 m/s. After 8.00 s the car has slowed down to 17.0 m/s.
Find the magnitude and direction of the net force that produces the deceleration.
9. A supertanker of mass 𝑚 = 1.50 × 108 kg is being towed by two tugboats, as in the picture. The tensions in the
towing cables apply the forces 𝑇1 and 𝑇2 at equal angles of 30.0° with respect to the tanker's axis. In addition the tanker's
engines produce a forward drive force D, whose magnitude is 𝐷 = 75.0 × 103 N. Moreover, the water applies an
opposing force R, whose magnitude is 𝑅 = 40.0 × 103 N. The tanker moves forward with an acceleration of
2.00 × 10−3 m/s2 . Find the magnitudes of the tensions 𝑇1 and 𝑇2 .

10. A flatbed truck is carrying a crate up a 10.0° hill as in the picture. The coefficient of the static friction between the
truck bed and the crate is 𝜇𝑠 = 0.350. Find the maximum acceleration that the truck can attain before the crate begins to
slip backward relative to the truck.

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