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Friction on an inclined plane

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Calculating the acceleration of on object sliding down an inclined plane with friction.

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50 Responses to “Friction on an inclined plane”
  1. DezLadyLala says:

    amazingly you’ve helped, yet at the same time confused me.. who woulda thunk!! THX

  2. fiercex says:

    I’ve calculated with variables, and as is the case with no friction, mass does not matter here. Acceleration perpendicular to the plane is always a_g(sinA-u*cosA), where a_g is acceleration due to gravity, A is incline angle, and u is coefficient of friction.

  3. fiercex says:

    @Utaken friction is always against the direction of motion

  4. centurion869 says:

    Thta’s because most students fuck around in class!

  5. lalaflala says:

    Your videos are amazing! Thank you so much. I wish I knew about them when I took Gen Phys I.

  6. thatcutehughes says:

    So many teachers are old and dumb, I wish teachers would be harder to hire and I wish they get paid more so people like you would consider working as one, specially as a physics teacher.. sigh, PS. I learned more from 10 mins of a youtube video than 120 mins in class with a dumb ass teacher, I don’t do math well but I’m pretty sure that’s more efficient

  7. nuuts88 says:

    PLease make the videos a bit faster. pls pls pls.

  8. Utaken says:

    Can F_friction be greater than F_parallel? Would it move up :-P ?

  9. Bloodsaberxy says:

    O_O THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! i didn’t understand ANYTHING our teacher said and then bam, oh there’s khanacademy! ^_^

  10. steve0619 says:

    @turnerhare

    on a smooth plane (frictionless) no it doesn’t effect it, like in freefall.

    but im unsure on when there is friction, though i imagine it would:

    as different wieght would mean different normal reaction force. and friction is proportional to the normal force. (then more friction = smaller resultant = smaller acceleration)

    can anyone confirm that?

  11. sceipher says:

    you should now that when a triangle have 30, 60 and 90 degrees the length of the sides are always (the opposite length of 30 is always “K” , the length opposite to 60 is “K square root of 3″ and the hypotenuse is “2k” this helps and there are lots of them like the 45,45 and 90 and the 37,53 and 90 that makes your problems faster

  12. hellahulla says:

    @paulojunior201: It takes 2 seconds for him to say it, it helps people who may have trouble remembering and it’s not harming you.

    May I make a suggestion? If you don’t like his methods you could not watch the videos, you could watch one of the countless other videos on this subject there are around the Internet, you could make your own if you are smart enough to. What you don’t need to do, is whine on every video that he mentions the trigonometry mnemonic.

    Hope I helped, ta ta.

  13. bajorox says:

    wtf is one half…..?? its simply half isn’t it..?

  14. Starpluslover says:

    thnxz ull save my life

  15. paulojunior201 says:

    sohcahtoa again. geez

  16. XBLKellRell says:

    Hey, guess what, my physics teacher does the same thing, except he gives us a worksheet and writes on the board the next day and decides to be absent the day before the exam…yay!

    Not sure what you did but I get this stuff now…great video.

  17. ultimage7 says:

    I love you.

  18. foshoukno says:

    I have a test on Wednesday on this, and I was about to cry last class because my teacher explains NOTHING.
    But now I feel a lot better, lol.

  19. FleurgNation says:

    yay fun physics is awesome guys…

  20. IHaveNoClue76 says:

    you just made my life easier a whole bunch!

  21. 6bikal6 says:

    my physics teacher is I guess worst teacher. I wish you were our physics teacher. My teacher just keeps on writing in the board without detail explaination.

    When my teacher taught this portion of physics, at that time I didn’t even got the idea what the component of gravitation opposite to normal was.

  22. doctormurray91 says:

    Great stuff. I think the “y-component of gravity perpendicular to the ground yada yada” idea would be simplified if you included a set of coordinate axes along the slope of the inclined plane. Then again, what the hell do I know?

  23. TragedyZ says:

    yeah same here, except I was absent from class and all I got was a list of a bunch of equations, I was lost as hell. haha

    I’m glad i found this video though

  24. pjtheman1 says:

    wow what a teacher- he really break the concepts down i love it- i didnt understand what the hell my physics teacher was talking about and today i found this and it saved the day

  25. TheDaveyht3 says:

    why not just use cos of theta?

  26. opiumgland says:

    Why isn’t she wearing scrubs?

  27. 10mintwo says:

    @odysseus9672 and @arcarulez Actually, yes it WOULD, although odysseus is right that it would tend to be pushed out, but only very slowly at 7T I would imagine. Look at this, it’s only 1T!!!

    watch?v=lszHhU52Mow

  28. odysseus9672 says:

    @10mintwo You would actually need to put it in some kind of slot, otherwise the block will be pushed sideways out of the field, I would think.

  29. odysseus9672 says:

    Oh, professor! Your brain is so big and foldy!

    I’m jealous!

    j/k :)

  30. nemesisnick66 says:

    @vrshowdown joke was that since he’s a professor/scientist guy and brains are called gray matter that his “gray afro” was just his brain cause its huge an all…something like that kinda lame but what ever

  31. vrshowdown says:

    @nemesisnick66 looks like a gray afro to me

  32. skuul666 says:

    @Muscleduck Same here, and im just like the professor a chemist :) the chemistry professor on my university (amsterdam) is also a lefty

  33. nemesisnick66 says:

    that isnt hair on his head its gray matter!

  34. Muscleduck says:

    I’m a lefty too! Is it me or are some of the biggest brains left handed… The Professor, Einstein, Picasso,…

  35. Geomanb says:

    his lateral ventricles (‘space’ inside ones brain, in which cerebrospinal fluid is mainly produced) seem to be comparatevely small – so there’s more room for gray matter :)

  36. carnyzack says:

    Can you tell that I’m left handed by looking at that? LOL!

  37. IAINMAN96 says:

    @Serostern: Proffessor’s name is Martyn Poliakoff

  38. Cream147player says:

    Would be great I think

  39. pepsibookcat says:

    I wonder if anyone framed a printout of one of the cooler images so the Professor could hang it in his office.

    Hmmm, chemistry and physics are represented. I wonder if there will ever be Math Dept. videos?

  40. Hellothere212121 says:

    @mikez565 – Perhaps because she’s American…

  41. Serostern says:

    Anyone know the professors real name?

  42. chrisofnottingham says:

    I have been in that exact MRI scanner! Found it to be like just like the video says, it made me slightly dizzy getting pushed in and it was loud for a long while. FYI the dizziness is allegedly caused by the fluid in the ear canals, which is in loops, getting movement induced into it as one’s head travels through the magnetic field.

  43. orang3c4rt says:

    lmao

  44. tjd07x says:

    your brain is actually split up into 2 hemispheres, they are separate entities attached by a small inslet of brain matter called the corpus callosum

  45. Bloodscalpr says:

    i think he means the white one :P

  46. Dune1884 says:

    BIG GRAY AFRO DUDE

  47. yngmalm says:

    she was cute

  48. mikez565 says:

    why does the girl have an american accent?

  49. kebabsallad says:

    The little gap thingi between the 2 halves of the brain :P ?

  50. solomsolomol says:

    what’s that line at 1:58 ?

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