Q.
Put a uniform meter scale horizontally on your extended index fingers with the left one at 0.00 cm and the right one at 90.00 cm. When you attempt to move both the fingers slowly towards the center, initially only the left finger slips with respect to the scale and the right finger does not. After some distance, the left finger stops and the right one starts slipping. Then the right finger stops at a distance 𝑥𝑅 from the center (50.00 cm) of the scale and the left one starts slipping again. This happens because of the difference in the frictional forces on the two fingers. If the coefficients of static and dynamic friction between the fingers and the scale are 0.40 and 0.32, respectively, the value of 𝑥𝑅 (in cm) is
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answer is 25.60.
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InitiallyN1+N2=MgτN=0about centreN1(50)=N2(40)5N1=4N2N1=4Mg9N2=5Mg9 f1K=μKN1f1K=0.32N1¯ f1L=μsN1f1L=0.4N1¯f2K=0.32N2 f2L=0.4N2Suppose XL = distance of left finger from center when right finger starts movingτn=0about centre ⇒N1xL=N2(40)fK1=fL2⇒0.32N1=0.40N24N1=5N2N1xL=4N15(40)xL=32Now XR = distance when right finger stops and left finger starts movingτn=0about centre ⇒N1xL=N2xRfL1=fK2⇒0.4N1=0.32N25N1=4N24N25(32)=N2xRxR=1285=25.6cm
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