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PHY 107

Force and Motion 1

Mohammad Murshed
Department of Math and Physics

October 28, 2018


OUTLINE

I Force in Newtonian mechanics


I Newton’s First Law and Inertial Frame
I Newton’s Second Law
I Some particular forces
I Newton’s Third Law
I Application/Examples
Force in Newtonian Mechanics

What can cause an object to accelerate?


Force (a push or a pull on the object)
Force will change the velocity of that object.
Newton’s First Law and Inertial Frame
!
If no net force acts on a body (Fnet = 0), the body’s velocity
cannot change, the body can’t accelerate.
There may be multiple forces acting on a body, but if their
net force is zero, the body can’t accelerate
Inertial Frame: One in which Newton’s Laws hold e.g. ground is an
inertial frame provided we can ignore Earth’s astronomical motions
(such as its rotation)
Puck sliding:
Newton’s Second Law

The net force on a body is equal to the product of the body’s mass
and acceleration.
We draw a free-body diagram in which the only body shown is the
one for which we are summing forces
XYZ coordinate system:
Fnet,x = max , Fnet,y = may , Fnet,z = maz
Internal force: Total mechanical energy (KE + PE) stays
constant e.g. gravitational force, spring force
External forces are capable of changing the total mechanical
energy of an object, they are sometimes referred to as
nonconservative forces e.g. friction
Newton’s Second Law

EXAMPLE A 2 kg cookie tin is accelerated at 3m/s 2 in the


direction shown by ! a , over a frictionless horizontal surface. The
acceleration is caused by three horizontal forces, only two of which
! !
are shown: F1 of magnitude 10 and F2 of magnitude 20 N.
Newton’s Second Law

!
Fnet = m! a
! ! !
F1 + F2 + F3 = m !
a
x components:
! ! !
F3,x = m!ax F1,x F2,x
= macos(50) F1 cos( 150) F2 cos(90)
y components:
! ! !
F3,y = m!ay F1,y F2,y
= masin(50) F1 sin( 150) F2 sin(90)
!
F3 = 13iˆ 10jˆ
Some particular forces

The following forces must be noted in a given problem...


Normal Force: When a body presses against a surface, the
surface (even a seemingly rigid one) deforms and pushes on the
body with a normal force FN that is perpendicular to the surface.

Friction: Motion resisted by a bonding between the body and the


surface
Some particular forces

Tension

Cord is massless and unstretchable


Massless, frictionless pulley: If the cord wraps halfway around a
pulley, the net force on the pulley from the cord has the magnitude
2T.
Newton’s Third Law

When two bodies interact, the forces on the bodies from each
other are always equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.

The book and crate are stationary, but the third law would still
hold if they were moving and even if they were accelerating.
Application/Examples

Cord accelerates block up a ramp A cord pulls on a box of sea


biscuits up along a frictionless plane inclined at ✓ = 30. The box
has mass m = 5 kg, and the force from the cord has magnitude
T = 25 N. What is the box’s acceleration component a along the
inclined plane?

!
Apply Newton’s second law: Fnet = m!
a
T mgsin(✓) = ma
Application/Examples
Atwood’s Machine Two blocks are connected by a cord (of
negligible mass) that passes over a frictionless pulley (also of
negligible mass). The arrangement is known as Atwood’s machine.
One block has mass m1 = 1.3 kg; the other has mass m2 = 2.8 kg
.Find (a) the magnitude of the block’s acceleration and (b) the
tension in the cord

Draw FBD: m2 g T = m2 a
T m1 g = m1 a
Some Important problems

Book: Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday/Resnik


(Extended 9th edition)
Newton’s Second Law: 7,10
Applying Newton’s Laws: 17,32,34
Reference

Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday and Resnik

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