A truck pulls boxes up an incline plane. The truck can exert a maximum force of #3,600 N#. If the plane's incline is #(5 pi )/12 # and the coefficient of friction is #5/12 #, what is the maximum mass that can be pulled up at one time?
1 Answer
May 10, 2017
The mass is
Explanation:
Resolving in the direction parallel to the plane
Let the force exerted by the truck be
Let the frictional force be
The coefficient of friction
The normal force is
Therefore,