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Calculate the height up to which an insect can crawl up a fixed bowl in form of a hemisphere of radius r. Given the coefficient of friction is 1/√3 .

Calculate the height up to which an insect can crawl up a fixed bowl in form of a hemisphere of radius r. Given the coefficient of friction is 1/√3 .

Grade:10

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SAGAR SINGH - IIT DELHI
878 Points
13 years ago

Dear student,

just b4 slipping

umgcostheta=mgsintheta

tantheta=1/root3

theta=30 deg

height=R(1-cos30)

R(1-(root3)/2)

 

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