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Friction: A 55-kg box rests on a horizontal surface. The coefficient of static friction between the box and the surface is 0.30, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.20. What horizontal force must be applied to the box to cause it to start sliding along the surface? 

          Friction: A 55-kg box rests on a horizontal surface. The coefficient of static friction between the box and the surface is 0.30, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.20. What horizontal force must be applied to the box to cause it to start sliding along the surface?
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Friction: A 55-kg box rests on a horizontal surface. The coefficient of static friction between the box and the surface is 0.30, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.20. What horizontal force must be applied to the box to cause it to start sliding along the surface?
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00:01 Hello and welcome to this video solution of numerate.
00:04 Here it's given that a box having mass of 55 kg is resting on a horizontal surface.
00:12 The coefficient of static friction between the box and the surface equal to 0 .3, right? and the kinetic friction muque equal to 0 .2...
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