2. Skid your tires and burn rubber. Just barely avoid skidding the tires.
The light turns green and you’re in a hurry!
Will the car accelerate faster if you floor
the pedal and “burn rubber” or if instead
you accelerate so as to just avoid skidding
your wheels?
Skid your tires and burn rubber.
Just barely avoid skidding the tires.

3. The skis dig into the snow, and do work in plowing the snow aside.
Beginner skiers
learn to ski-plow
to slow down or
stop.
The skis dig into the snow, and
do work in plowing the snow aside.
This work comes at a cost: it depletes the
skier’s kinetic energy…slowing her to a stop.
But the snow also pushes back on the skier!
Perhaps more
tangible if the
encounter was
with a boulder
rather than a
pile of soft snow.

4. You push LEFT against the snow!
How do you turn right
when skiing downhill?
You push LEFT against the snow!
When snow-plowing you actually push out
with your LEFT skit o turn right! In more
advanced parallel skiing you lean right to
dig the inside (right) edge of your skis into
the snow…pushing LEFT against the hill!

5. Contact always produces pairs of forces.
The tennis ball
pushes into the
racquet’s netting,
stretching its
strings.
The net pushes against
the tennis ball (see how
it has been deformed?)
slowing it to a stop,
then sending it back.
Contact always produces pairs of forces.
The place-kicker’s toe
pushes into the football.
Note how it has been
deformed! This force
will send it flying.
The kicker’s
toe will feel
the football.
This force
will ever-so-slightly
slow his foot down.

6. The cue ball traveling with speed v
strikes a stationary billiard ball head-on.
A. The cue ball rebounds backward, while
its target is sent moving forward.
B. The cue ball stops while its target
continues forward with the speed v.
C. The cue ball and target ball roll
forward together with a speed <v.
D. The cue ball comes to rest in place
next to the target ball.

7. If this involves speeds over 5-10 mph, both
Consider this rear end collision with a parked car.
If left in neutral without
the parking brake set, the
force of impact will send
this car rolling forward.
The force of impact
stops this car.
If this involves speeds over 5-10 mph, both
vehicles will sustain damage. Which one
“feels” or experiences the force of impact?
The cue ball loses its energy
in this head-on collision.
The force of the impact
pushes back in stopping it.
The force of impact pushes the target forward.
The cue ball decelerates from v to 0 in the same
fraction of a second (the time both balls in
contact) that its target accelerates from 0 to v.

8. A boxer’s
right hook
delivers a
knock-out
punch!
The force this punch delivers to his
opponent’s face/head/neck is
1. greater than
2. exactly equal to
3. less than
the force the boxer’s hand experiences
from the blow.

9. A fly is struck against by windshield of
a car traveling 65mph down the highway.
The force experienced by the fly on impact
is greater than
is equal to
is less than
the force of impact experienced by the
windshield due to the impact.

10. Nothing’s moving, but not from lack of trying!2 1 5 6 4 3
1. Stranded motorist pushes on car.
2. Car pushes back on her.
How do we know?
3. Because it is mired in sand, the car’s tires
have a mound of sand to push up against.
4. Sand pushes back on car.
How do we know?
5. With feet dug in, she pushes
back into the sand.
6. The sand pushes back on her.
This is what balances 2.
What needs to be changed to get out?

11. How do you walk? What are the forces involved that allow you to walk?
As bracing yourself to push a car showed, you
push back against the ground below you
to propel yourself forward.
Imagine
trying to
walk
across a
surface
without
friction!

12. Micro-polished glass
Smooth plastic surface

13. A smoothly varnished surface.

14. Polished carbon steel surfaces

15. Since even the smoothest of surfaces
are microscopically rough, friction
results from the sliding up and over
of craggy surfaces, and even the
chipping and breaking of jagged peaks.
There are TWO TYPES of friction.
Static Friction
Acts to prevent objects from starting to slide
Forces can range from zero to an upper limit
Sliding Friction
Acts to stop objects that are already sliding
Forces of sliding friction have a fixed value
that depends on the particular surfaces
involved.

16. Frictional forces increase when you:
force the sliding surfaces together more tightly (increase an object’s weight).
The peak static force is always greater than sliding force
Surface features interpenetrate more
deeply when stationary objects settle.
Friction force drops when sliding begins
Cold welds are broken and moving objects
ride across the craggy surfaces higher.

17. The force of friction, f, is directly W
The force of friction, f, is directly
proportional to the total force (usually
W for objects sliding horizontally) that
presses the sliding surfaces together:
We write: f = W
where  is known as the
“coefficient of friction”

18. an additional form of energy.
Typical coefficients of friction
maximum
Material static sliding
Rubber on dry concrete
Steel against steel
Glass across glass
Wood on wood
Wood on leather
Copper on steel
Rubber on wet concrete
Steel on ice
Waxed skis on snow
Steel across teflon
Synovial joints (hip, elbow)
What happens when objects slide to rest?
Where does the lost kinetic energy go?
It generates heat,
an additional form of energy.

19. Wheels can circumvent friction by using
Rotation
Velocity
Wheels can circumvent friction by using
the fact that objects can roll without sliding

20. If friction prevents slipping at this point,
the foot planted at bottom stays stationary
as the entire assembly tips forward,
rotating about its axis.

21. Notice while the planted foot stays put, the axle moves forward
at half the speed
that the top edge
of our wheel does!
Remember:pathlength
out a distance r from
the center of a rotation:
s = r 
and the tangential
speed at that point:
v = r  2v v
v = 0

23. For an individual mass m rotating
Each time this tethered ball comes
around, a wack of the paddle
gives it a boost of speed speed v . r m
But this v is directly related to
an angular velocity,  (in radians/sec)
v = r
For an individual mass m rotating
in an orbit of radius r
rotational
kinetic energy