Marymount International School London Name _____________________

Grade 10 Physics - Friction worksheet Date _____________________

Below each problem draw its labeled free-body diagram on the left and solve the problem to the righ.
All work must be shown.

1. A girl pushes a 1.04 kg book across a table with a horizontal applied force of 15.0 N. If the
coefficient of kinetic friction between the book and the table is 0.35, find its acceleration.

2. A box with a mass of 22.0 kg is placed on a ramp that is at an angle of 38.0 degrees above the
horizontal. What is the magnitude of the component of the weight that is parallel to the surface
of the ramp?

3. A desk with a mass of 67.4 kg rests on a floor where the coefficient of static friction between the
surfaces is 0.45. How much force would be required to get the desk to start sliding?
4. If the desk is problem #3 is on a ramp with an angle of 22.0 degrees to the horizontal, how
much force must be applied to get the desk to move?

5. A 54.3 kg block is placed on an inclined plane that is 42.4 degrees from the horizontal. What is
the acceleration of the block? Ignore friction.
6. The same block in problem #5 is placed on the same inclined plane from problem #4. However,
now there is friction. If the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.25, what is the acceleration of the
block?

7. Same block from problem #6. If the distance of the inclined plane is 5.2 m, how long does it take
the block to reach the end of the plane?