Homework Help: physics

Posted by anonymous on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 1:29pm.

How hard would you have to push a snow shovel over the sidewalk if you wanted to maintain a constant velocity if the shovel had a mass of 12 kg and the coefficient of friction between the sidewalk and the shovel was 0.33?

physics - bobpursley, Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 1:32pm
you have to push to equal friction.

forcefriction=mu*mg

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