What is the orientation of the vector of friction?

In summary, the conversation discusses a question about the orientation of the vector of friction between a moving circle and a rotating wall. The participants also discuss the possibility of the normal force being constant and the relation between the friction force and the relative velocities of the objects. More information is needed to determine the velocities and accelerations involved.
  • #141
JrK said:
I translate the circle, I don't rotate it. I let AT reply if it is not what he asked.
If you use the rest frame of the wall and mention a rotation angle, it must be the circle that rotates.

The wall does not rotate in its own rest frame. That's a tautology.
 
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  • #142
jbriggs444 said:
If you use the rest frame of the wall and mention a rotation angle, it must be the circle that rotates.
I explained the method I used in the message #133. I glued, I rotate, I translate, etc. and I asked if it is correct or not. If not, explain the method I need to use, I mean by steps:

1/
2/
3/
etc.
 
  • #143
JrK said:
I explained the method I used in the message #133. I glued, I rotate, I translate, etc. and I asked if it is correct or not. If not, explain the method I need to use, I mean by steps:

1/
2/
3/
etc.
Well, let's check back. We've already reviewed #128. Three scenarios were under discussion.

1) Non-rotating, translating circle:

2) Rotating, non-translating circle:

3) CCW-rotating, right-translating circle:


This suggest that we would want three pictures. Each with a before and after circle. Now let us review #133.

The first picture shows a circle that is non-rotating and translating in the ground frame.

In the wall frame it is rotating and translating. The wall is not drawn horizontally as was requested.

So the first drawing is not what was asked.

The drawing that is purported to show rotation but not translation shows three circles and two walls. There is no rotation in the ground frame. It is far from clear whether there is translation in the wall frame.

The wall is not drawn horizontally as was requested

So the second drawing is not what was asked.

There is no drawing purporting to show both rotation and translation.

So there is no third drawing.
 
  • #144
Here:

f5.png


The start position is the wall at 45° with the blue circle. The wall is fixed at 45° (the wall at 30° is the end position, I need it to built the drawing). The circle in GREY color at left is translating not rotating. Are you agree ?

And the distance asked by AT is 0 in the case 1/

The second case is correct too, if you consider the wall fixed at 45° (I drew also the end position): rotating not translating. and the distance is well the distance I measured from start: d2.
 
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  • #145
JrK said:
The start position is the wall at 45° with the blue circle. The wall is fixed at 45° (the wall at 30° is the end position, I need it to built the drawing). The circle in GREY color at left is translating not rotating. Are you agree ?
As I understand it, you built the drawing by starting with the BLUE circle. However, that circle is just a reference from which you constructed the GREEN circle -- by translating right relative to the ground frame. And from which you constructed the GRAY circle -- by rotating 15 degrees counterclockwise.

The drawing is intended to depict the GRAY circle as the starting point and the GREEN circle as the ending point.

Yes, I agree that from a wall-relative point of view, this amounts to a translation without a rotation. I fail to understand the point of drawing two walls when the drawing is supposed to depict a wall-relative point of view.
JrK said:
The second case is correct too, if you consider the wall fixed at 45° (I drew also the end position): rotating not translating. and the distance is well the distance I measured from start: d2.
There is no second case in the quoted post.
 
  • #146
JrK said:

The grey circle is wrong. The transformation to the rest frame of the wall is a pure rotation around the pivot bottom left, such that the walls align. And the green circle needs to be transformed in the very same way. So the green circle ends up much further up-right along wall, not where you drew it. The distance of point 2 to the pivot doesn't change in the transformation.

This really trivial:
- Draw both time points in your frame
- Rotate both entire images around the pivot so their walls align (and ideally are horizontal)
 
  • #147
@jbriggs444: I don't represent the drawings like standards physicists do and I don't use the standard notations too, so I think it is more difficult to understand.

The second image, rotating not translating (start in blue, end in green, transformation in grey):

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@AT: I don't understand: I choose the wall fixed at 45°, I drew the start position and the end position (arbitrary). After, I glued the circle and the wall of the end position and I rotate it of 15°, after I dettached the wall and the circle and I translate the circle to be at the same position than the circle of the start position, it is not that I need to do ?
 
  • #148
JrK said:
@jbriggs444: I don't represent the drawings like standards physicists do and I don't use the standard notations too, so I think it is more difficult to understand.
Yes, your drawings are more difficult to understand than the drawings that are being requested.

For instance, a drawing containing notations "le1" and "le2" without any verbiage discussing what "le1" or "le2" denote might as well contain neither notation. And indeed, if it is not translating then "le1" and "le2" are completely devoid of significance.

A drawing that is supposed to use the rest frame of a wall but in which a "fixed" wall takes two different orientations -- that simply boggles the mind.
 
  • #149
JrK said:

Now the grey circle has the right position, but wrong orientation. In the original image it was the other way around.
 
  • #150
jbriggs444 said:
For instance, a drawing containing notations "le1" and "le2" without any verbiage discussing what "le1" or "le2" denote might as well contain neither notation. And indeed, if it is not translating then "le1" and "le2" are completely devoid of significance.
Yes, you're right I don't explained, le1=le2 : I noted that. What is le1 ? it is d2. And what is le2 ? it is the distance of the friction (the slip that AT spoke). So, le1=le2 said the distance of friction is well the distance I thought.

A.T. said:
Now the grey circle has the right position, but wrong orientation. In the original image it was the other way around.
You spoke about what image ? the image of the message # 147 is the second case: no translating, rotating.

The image for the translating, no rotating is the image in the message #144. It is the same dot, I'm sorry about that but yes, the distance in the first case is 0. Or I made a mistake in what you asked.
 
  • #151
JrK said:
You spoke about what image ? the image of the message # 147 is the second case: no translating, rotating.
Your scenario is case 3: translating and rotating relative to the wall. The other cases were just a decomposition of case 3 into the two components.

Draw your scenario, in the rest frame of the wall, just as I explained:
- Draw both time-points in your original frame
- Rotate each time-point-image around the wall-pivot, such that the walls align (and ideally are horizontal)
 
  • #152
I'm not sure to understand, is it the case 2 ? :

cas2.png


We are agree that the wall at 45° is fixed (not the 30°) ?
 
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  • #153
I thought that case 2 was rotating, not translating. In #152 you show three circles. Are we to understand that GRAY is the before, GREEN is the after and BLUE is irrelevant? If so, that's neither rotating nor translating. That's glued-to-the-wall.
 
  • #154
jbriggs444 said:
I thought that case 2 was rotating, not translating. In #152 you show three circles. Are we to understand that GRAY is the before, GREEN is the after and BLUE is irrelevant? If so, that's neither rotating nor translating.
You speak at me ? For me, blue is the start, green the end and gray is the modification asked by AT. In fact, I don't understand what I drew :p but I try. The wall fixed is at 45° not 30°. It is very strange that I drew. I need help. In fact, what I do with these drawing ?
 
  • #155
JrK said:
You speak at me ? For me, blue is the start, green the end and gray is the modification asked by AT. In fact, I don't understand what I drew :p but I try. The wall fixed is at 45° not 30°. It is very strange that I drew. I need help. In fact, what I do with these drawing ?
If you do not understand what you drew, how do you expect us to?

If you are trying to depict rotation without translation then depicting translation is not appropriate.

If you are trying to depict rotation with translation then the BLUE transitioning to GRAY is correct in everything except, possibly, scale and the GREEN is irrelevant.

It would help if you put enough commentary with your drawings that we know what you are trying to depict. Extraneous circles and extraneous walls are not helping.
 
  • #156
JrK said:
Good, now do the rest:

A.T. said:
Then draw the path of the contact point on each body:
- a line on the wall (same length as circle_displacement )
- an arc on the circle (rotation_angle * circle_radius)
The total slip length the the sum of them.

Hints how to make your life simpler:
- Make the wall with the 2 circles horizontal
- Make the cross-marking initially go through the contact point.
 
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  • #157
@AT: we are agree that :

ve1.png


is the case 1 ?

So the path of what from what ? I think I don't take in account the end position (green). So here if it is well the case 1/, what path on the wall ?
 
  • #158
JrK said:
is the case 1 ?
No, the cases I listed refer to the motion in rest frame of the wall. So you first have to transform correctly into that frame. Which you finally did in post #152, so now proceed as described in post #156.
 
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  • #159
But you confirmed the #152 is the case 2/ (I asked, you reply: good) so I need the case 1/ no ?
 
  • #160
JrK said:
But you confirm the #152 is the case 2/
No, #152 is your scenario, which is case 3: Relative to the wall the circle is translating and rotating (compare blue and grey circle).
 
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  • #161
A.T. said:
No, #152 is your scenario, which is case 3: Relative to the wall the circle is translating and rotating (compare blue and grey circle).
Ok, so the length I measure is d1, BUT like I said before you forget the movement of the dot of contact between the circle and the wall RELATIVELY to a fixed dot on the material (the circle for example) and the distance moved by the dot of contact is d1-d2. So, your slip of the friction is well d2.
 
  • #162
JrK said:
Ok, so the length I measure is d1,
There is no d1 in image #152. Please follow the instructions in post #156.
 
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  • #163
That ?:

vs.png
 
  • #164
JrK said:
No.
A.T. said:
Hints how to make your life simpler:
- Make the wall with the 2 circles horizontal
- Make the cross-marking initially go through the contact point.
 
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  • #165
A.T. said:
Make the cross-marking initially go through the contact point.
I don't understand.

I place the circles horizontal and after ? It is A0 on the dot of contact ? :

dz.png


Or maybe it is :

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I see the mark on the left circle and on the right circle. The length of the friction is that distance ?
 
  • #166
JrK said:
I don't understand.

I place the circles horizontal and after ? It is A0 on the dot of contact ? :

View attachment 261971
Good, now adjust the dotted-markings such that initially one of dotted lines hits the contact point. For the final state they are rotated counter-clockwise from the initial state.

Then mark in different colors:
- the part of the wall that was in contact with the circle
- the part of the circle that was in contact with the wall
 
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  • #167
A.T. said:
now adjust the dotted-markings such that initially one of dotted lines hits the contact point. For the final state they are rotated counter-clockwise from the initial state.
You want I rotate the circles ? only one ? in which direction CW CCW ?
 
  • #168
JrK said:
You want I rotate the circles ? only one ? in which direction CW CCW ?
Both by the same amount, so the initial contact point is marked on the circle. And use only one radius line for that, not 4 of the same color making it ambiguous,
 
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  • #169
But the initial marks on the two circles are already in contact with the wall. Which amount to rotate ? CW or CCW ?
 
  • #170
JrK said:
But the initial marks on the two circles are already in contact with the wall.
I mean the oblique dotted lines through the center of the circle. The are useless.

For the initial state draw a single radius to the initial contact. Then for the final state the same marking rotated with the circle CCW.
 
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  • #171
I drew that:

cd3.png


It is correct ?
 
  • #172
JrK said:
I drew that:

View attachment 261973

It is correct ?
No. The new solid line mark cannot rotate relative to the old dotted line marks. They are all just marks on the same circle. They have to rotate with the circle in the same way.

Is this not obvious to you?
 
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  • #173
A.T. said:
Is this not obvious to you?
I don't understand what I'm doing in the geometry, nor where I'm going. I do what you ask but I don't understand the method. And like your english is technical I have difficulties to draw what you want. It is a true method tested ?
 
  • #174
JrK said:
I don't understand what I'm doing
You have added a new mark on the blue circle, right in the middle between two old dotted marks.

For the grey circle that new mark must also be right in the middle between two old dotted marks.
 
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  • #175
like that ?

bh3.png
 
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