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Posted by sylvia on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:01pm.

using the strap at an angle of 31° above the horizontal, a Grade 12 Physics student, tired from studying, is dragging his 15 kg school bag across the floor at a constant velocity.

(a) If the force of tension in the strap is 51 N, what is the normal force on the bag?
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(b) What is the coefficient of kinetic friction between the bag and the floor?

physics - bobpursley, Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:15pm
wouldn't it be weight minus the vertical component of the pulling force?

b) THe horizontal force=friction=mu*(mg-vertical force)=51cosTheta

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