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Re: Physics Quiz 3

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Originally Posted by BRAVESaj25bd8 View Post
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
If you increase tau_k, the system will no longer be in equilibrium. That means something must change.