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Lab 8- Deriving a Model from Friction

Purpose: The purpose of this lab is create a model to determine the behavior of an object when friction is involved.
Purpose
In this lab, we did five different experiments involving friction: static friction, kinetic friction, static friction friction from a sloped surface, kinetic friction from sliding block down an incline and predicting the acceleration of a two-mass system. We used the derivation and measurement and capture the appropriate graphs to explain how we can get the friction from each section of the lab in order to find each friction of experimental values compared to the theoretical values.
(1) Static Friction
Static friction describes the friction force acting between two bodies when are not moving relative to one another. The coefficient of static friction is defined as:
procedure:
In this static friction experiment, we added the mass m to the bottom shown a bit of time until the block just starts to slip.
We run the experiment and record the appropriate data by repeating the experiment in four times, so that we got four different values of mass of hanging and mass of block that the block start to move:
Mass (block)
Mass (hanging)
182g
105g
382g
205g
582g
380g
782g
500g


-- A table of calculated results/Graphs of data:
Calculated the values of friction force and normal force by those equation:

We calculated our theoretical values of the coefficient of static friction
That, we got our theoretical values of the coefficient of static friction is 0.288
Conclusion
The graph is about the friction force vs. normal force, and the slope of the graph is the values of the coefficient of static friction between the felt and the track. The slope of the graph is 0.288, there is our experimental value the coefficient of static friction.
(2) Kinetic Friction
In our model, the kinetic friction force has a fixed value for a given N, regardless of the speed of the motion. This coefficient, like the coefficient of static friction, depends only on the surface materials, not on the weight of the object or its area of contact.
procedure:
In this Kinetic friction experiment, we used a Force sensor. Opened in a LabPro and connected it to the computer with the USB cable. Plug the force probe into the LabPro, CH1. Switch the force probe so that it reads in the 10-N range. Second, connected up a force sensor to CH1 of a LabPro and plug the LabPro into the computer, etc. Set the force sensor on the 10-N range. Calibrate the force sensor using a 500-gram hanging mass. Then, determined the mass of  a wooden block that has felt on its lower surface. Hold the force horizontally and Zero the force sensor. Finally, tie a string between the force and sensor and the block to hit "collect" and slowly pull horizontally, moving the block at constant speed along the surface of the table. Store the run, and repeated the above step again to four different mass of the block.

-- A table of the Data:
We run the experiment and record the appropriate data by repeating the experiment in five times, so that we got five different values of the mass of the block and the value of the force senor.
Force (N)
F (mean)
182g
0.5077
382g
1.093
582g
1.652
782g
2.23
982g
2.743


calculated results
Calculated the normal force by
We got the new table about the values of the mass of the block, the value of the force senor, and the normal force.
mass
Force
N
182g
0.5077
1.7836
382g
1.093
3.7436
582g
1.652
5.7036
782g
2.23
7.6636
982g
2.743
9.6236


 
 
 
 
Get the graph about the kinetic friction force vs. normal force.
Calculated our theoretical values of the coefficient of kinetic friction by get the average of four values of friction force and normal force:
That, we got our theoretical values of the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.288
(3) Static Friction from A Sloped Surface
procedure:
Placed a block on a horizontal surface. Slowly raised one end of the surface, and tilting it until the block starts to slip. Used the angle at which slipping just begins to determine the coefficient of static friction between the block and the surface.
 
-- A table of the Data:
Used the iPhone - compact to measure an angle the the block just begins to slip down, the angel is 26.8, 30.2 and 32.6 degree.

Conclusion:
By the equation, we determined the coefficient of static friction between the block and the surface is 0.322.
(4) Kinetic Friction From Sliding A Block Down An Incline
procedure:
Used a motion detector to record the acceleration which at the top of an incline steep enough that a block will accelerate down the incline. Measured the angle of the incline and the acceleration of the block. 
-- A table of the Data:
The angle is 22 degree. Through the LabPro, we got the acceleration is this motion. In the graph of velocity vs. time, the acceleration is its slope, a=0.7433 m/s^2.
 
 
 
Results:
-- Explanation of graph/analysis:
Plug the number of the acceleration into the equation of the kinetic friction, we can get the value of the coefficient of the kinetic friction in the sloped surface. The coefficient of the kinetic friction is 0.322.

(5) Predicting the Acceleration of A Two-Mass System 
Procedure:
Set up the motion sensor at end of the table, and placed the block in front of the motion sensor. Used the string to connect the block and the hanging mass. Added the mass of hanging in order to create the kinetic friction that the block was moving forward.


Conculsion:
The experimental acceleration is the slope of the graph velocity vs. time. The experimental value of acceleration is 3.771 m/s^2. The theoretical acceleration is 3.63 m/s^2.

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