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Re: Physics Quiz 3
After thinking about it more, the error I made was getting wrapped up in angular motion, thinking that theta was the wheel's angular position about the pivot as the system rotates. What it really represents, though is a constant in this problem, the angle between the wheel's axis of rotation and the pivot arm.
I think that if you increase the torque, nothing will change because the wheel is already slipping. The friction cannot be higher than W*mu so no more torque is able to be useful.
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