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Re: work done by friction



At 11:21 AM +1000 10/26/99, Brian McInnes wrote:

"frictional forces do not do work"

If I drop a penny onto a slowly rotating turntable, I see that the
penny begins rotating at the same rate. What force diagram describes
how the coin gained this rotational KE?

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