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Textbook Solutions for Physics: Principles with Applications

Chapter 5 Problem 4CQ

Question

When you push a piece of chalk across a chalkboard, it sometimes screeches because it rapidly alternates between slipping and sticking to the board. Describe this process in more detail, in particular explaining how it is related to the fact that kinetic friction is less than static friction. (The same slip-grab process occurs when tires screech on pavement.)

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When one pushes a piece of chalk on a chalkboard, sometimes it slips but sometimes it sticks. This is due to a change in type of friction force between chalk and chalkboard.

While writing with chalk, there is a kinetic force of friction between chalk and chalkboard. But, when one stops for a while then there is a force of static friction between chalk and chalkboard.

 

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Title Physics: Principles with Applications 6 
Author Douglas C. Giancoli
ISBN 9780130606204

When you push a piece of chalk across a chalkboard, it

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