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In summary, a force is applied to a lawn roller in the form of a uniform solid cylinder of raidus R and mass M. The acceleration of the center of mass is 2F/3m. The minimum coefficient of friction neccesary to prevent slipping is F/3mg. If anyone could just give me a quick overview on how to approach these, that would be great. Thanks a lot for any help.
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Two blocks are connected by a string of negligible mass passing over a pulley of radius .250m and moment of inertia I. The block on the frictionless incline(it has a picture of incline with block 1 on it at theta = 37, and block 2 is hanging off the side by the pulley) is moving up with a constant acceleration of 2 m/s^2. I can find the moment of inertia of the pulley if I have the tensions T1(block 1 before the pulley) and T2(block 2 after the pulley) I am having trouble with 2 things. Why are the tensions different in the two parts of the string and are the tensions just T2 = (m2)a + (m2)g and T1 = (m1)a - (m1)gsin(theta) with a = 2? Because these do not give me the correct tensions, but I am thrown off in the first place by the tensions being different, any help would be VERY appreciated. Thank you very much.
 
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And if anyone could help with this one I would be forever in debt to you, hehe.

A constant horizontal force is applied to a lawn roller in the form of a uniform solid cylinder of raidus R and mass M. Show that the acceleration of the center of mass is 2F/3m. the minimum coefficient of friction neccesary to prevent slipping is F/3mg. If anyone could just give me a quick overview on how to approach these, that would be great. Thanks a lot for any help
 
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Where the Force F is acting
 
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F basically splits up and connects on both sides of the roller in the center of the end caps. At first I thought you could use torque to find the angular acceleration and use that to find the center of mass acceleration but my answers are not comming up correct.
 
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How you have applied torque equation if the force is acting at the centre. And is it starting rolling without sliding
 
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Well, that would be why it isn't working, I am not really sure how to go about it, besides the kinetic energy, but I am not sure exactly how that would work with it just rolling horizontally.
 
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i got the answer just wait
 
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Here

Applying the force equation
[tex]
F-f=Ma_{cm}[/tex][tex] //f=\frac{MR^2\alpha}{2}
[/tex]
now as there is rolling without slipping
[tex]a_{cm}=r\alpha [/tex]
solving the above equation
u will get [tex] a_{cm}=\frac{2F}{3M}[/tex]
 
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Where f is frictional force

which will be equal to [tex]\mu Mg=f[/tex]
where f=F/3
 
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