A basket of flowers of mass 3 kg is placed on a flat grassy slope that makes an angle θ with the horizontal. The coefficient of static friction between the basket and the slope is 0.45 and the basket is on the point of slipping down the slope. Model the basket of flowers as a particle and the grassy slope as a plane. Take the magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity, g, to be 9.8 m s−2 . State the forces that act on the basket. Draw a force diagram showing them, defining the symbols that you use to represent the forces and marking the sizes of the angles to show the directions of the forces. Take the unit vector i to point up the slope and the unit vector j to point upwards and perpendicular to the slope. Add these unit vectors to your force diagram.

A basket of flowers of mass 3 kg is placed on a flat grassy slope that makes an angle θ with the horizontal. The coefficient of static friction between the basket and the slope is 0.45 and the basket is on the point of slipping down the slope. Model the basket of flowers as a particle and the grassy slope as a plane. Take the magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity, g, to be 9.8 m s−2 . State the forces that act on the basket. Draw a force diagram showing them, defining the symbols that you use to represent the forces and marking the sizes of the angles to show the directions of the forces. Take the unit vector i to point up the slope and the unit vector j to point upwards and perpendicular to the slope. Add these unit vectors to your force diagram.