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Do you have a pool / Ball Pool slowdown in the table due to friction were constant deceleration?
I am conducting an experiment to find the coefficient of friction between a billiard ball and the felt on the table. I decided to use an inclined plane of glass, PE measure, make this equal to KE at the bottom of the plane and then use the initial velocity and displacement to measure the deceleration and thus the frictional force. I realize that this is a simplified model (override account the angular momentum, etc.), but it is fair to say that the ball slows down with constant deceleration, so that you can use v ^ 2 = u ^ 2 + 2as find it? Thank you! Thanks for the replies so far, all very useful. I wondered, what information I should know in order to work with angular momentum? I admit being a little disoriented in it. I'm guessing the mass, radius and initial speed of the ball? Thanks again for all the help so far.
Assume that the ball does not slide, may be considered as the constant deceleration. However, even when considering the slip, the effect of the slowdown is statistically inisignificant. Hope this helps.
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