Sliding friction causes a book to slow down and stop when pushed.
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Might also be known as dynamic friction.
When a book is pushed across a table, there are two forces acting on it: the force applied by the person pushing the book (force of push) and the force of friction acting in the opposite direction on the book due to contact with the table surface.
You would have to overcome sliding friction to make a book move across a desk. Sliding friction is the force that resists the motion of two surfaces sliding against each other.
The three forces acting on a book could include gravity, which pulls the book downward towards the Earth; the normal force exerted by the surface the book is resting on, which pushes the book upwards to balance gravity; and friction if the book is being pushed or pulled across a surface.
YES, YEA it is Yes it is a force. If not then we would be slipping around. What i have heard is that friction causes a pull in some ways. Say you slid a pencil on the floor with nothing in it's path. Now if you know what inetia (not a force) then you would know that the pencil would stop because of a outside force. And that force is friction. Friction had reduced the pencils speed when it rubbed together on the floor. Now if the pencil was givin more force when you pushed it and the floor was more slik then the pencil would have traveled alot more. This is because the force of friction is a less amount when one surface is smoother. I know this is a horrible explanation but this is what helps me think of the forces. And this is going to prove to my teacher that friction is a force and that inertia is not.
If the applied force were equal to the sliding friction force, the book would move at a constant velocity since the two forces would be balanced. This means there would be no acceleration or deceleration, and the book's velocity would remain unchanged as long as the forces stayed in equilibrium.
When a book is pushed across a table, there are two forces acting on it: the force applied by the person pushing the book (force of push) and the force of friction acting in the opposite direction on the book due to contact with the table surface.
In fact, there is an infinite number of answers because force is a vector, meaning that it has a magnitude and an orientation. For example, if someone pushes horizontaly onto the book (10N) and the friction is 8N in the opposite direction, the resultant force is 2N. But if the book is pushed at an angle, the resultant force changes.
You would have to overcome sliding friction to make a book move across a desk. Sliding friction is the force that resists the motion of two surfaces sliding against each other.
Yes, if an unbalanced force acts on the book, such as friction, which will slow the book down and eventually cause it to stop.
The three forces acting on a book could include gravity, which pulls the book downward towards the Earth; the normal force exerted by the surface the book is resting on, which pushes the book upwards to balance gravity; and friction if the book is being pushed or pulled across a surface.
YES, YEA it is Yes it is a force. If not then we would be slipping around. What i have heard is that friction causes a pull in some ways. Say you slid a pencil on the floor with nothing in it's path. Now if you know what inetia (not a force) then you would know that the pencil would stop because of a outside force. And that force is friction. Friction had reduced the pencils speed when it rubbed together on the floor. Now if the pencil was givin more force when you pushed it and the floor was more slik then the pencil would have traveled alot more. This is because the force of friction is a less amount when one surface is smoother. I know this is a horrible explanation but this is what helps me think of the forces. And this is going to prove to my teacher that friction is a force and that inertia is not.
If the applied force were equal to the sliding friction force, the book would move at a constant velocity since the two forces would be balanced. This means there would be no acceleration or deceleration, and the book's velocity would remain unchanged as long as the forces stayed in equilibrium.
The force of friction would also be 1 N, equal in magnitude but opposite in direction to the force you are pushing with. This equal and opposite force of friction is what allows the book to move at a constant velocity.
The velocity of the book will decrease as it moves across the surface with friction. Friction acts in the opposite direction of motion, slowing down the book.
static friction, friction between two non-moving objects.
The force of friction is NOT ALWAYS directed opposite the direction an object is moving. Consider, for example, an object (like a book) resting on a piece of paper on a table. If you gently pull the paper and the book moves with the paper, friction between the paper and the book is causing the book to move in the same direction as the paper. Even if you pull a bit faster and the book slides in the same direction as the paper motion, but a little bit slower, the friction is the force which is pulling the book along--in the same direction of the paper motion.The direction friction is acting is opposite the direction of the relative SLIDING or attempted sliding of surfaces. In the cases above, without friction, the book would slide opposite the direction of paper motion, so the friction is in the same direction, accelerating the book along with the paper. In the first case, the book's acceleration is the same as the paper's; in the second, the book's acceleration is less than the paper's causing the book to actually slide backwards relative to the paper's motion.
The force that slows down a book sliding on a table is mainly friction. As the book moves across the table, the friction between the book and the table surface opposes the motion, causing the book to slow down until it eventually stops.