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Posted by teamjakeward on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 8:19pm.

please help

There are six books in a stack, and each book weighs 5 N. The coefficient of static friction between the books is 0.2. With what horizontal force must one push to start sliding the top five books off the bottom one?

please walk me through this

physics - bobpursley, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 8:23pm
force friction between books= mu*mg
= .2*5*5=2.5N
physics - teamjakeward, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 8:26pm
thanks alot:D

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