Name: Anonymous 2008-03-03 0:31
Alright guys, I've been working on this problem for hours. We're going over rotational motion, but I just can't understand it.
A car traveling on a flat(unbanked) circular track accelerates uniformly from rest with tangential acceleration of 1.70 m/s^2. The car makes it one fourth of the way around the circle before it skids off the track. Determine the coefficient of static friction between the car and the track from this data.
I've tried what seems like a million ways to solve this, but I keep getting wither radius or velocity left over. Any chance you could help?
A car traveling on a flat(unbanked) circular track accelerates uniformly from rest with tangential acceleration of 1.70 m/s^2. The car makes it one fourth of the way around the circle before it skids off the track. Determine the coefficient of static friction between the car and the track from this data.
I've tried what seems like a million ways to solve this, but I keep getting wither radius or velocity left over. Any chance you could help?