A block with mass = 5.00kg slides down a surface inclined 36.

9 to the horizontal
(the figure 10.55 ). The coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.25. A string attached
to the block is wrapped around a flywheel on a fixed axis at O. The flywheel has
mass 25.0kg and moment of inertia 0.500kg with respect to the axis of rotation. The
string pulls without slipping at a perpendicular distance of 0.200 from that axis.
(a) What is the acceleration of the block down the plane? (b) What is the tension
of the string?

You need to understand Newtons 2nd law of motion (as well as its rotational
analog) and the concepts of torque, angular acceleration, and moment of inertia.
This problem may be solved from Newtons 2nd law. The forces acting on the block
are the component of the blocks weight parallel to the incline (mgsin?), the force
of friction (-mgcos?), and the tension in the string, T. Take down the incline as
positive, then:

?F = ma = mgsin? - mgcos? - T----------------------->(1)

The only force acting on the pulley is the tension in the string. It causes an
angular acceleration, so:

?t = Ia = rT

But angular acceleration is equal to linear acceleration divided by the radius of

the pulley, or a = a/r, therefore:

Ia/r = rT
T = Ia/r----------------------->(2)

Plugging (2) into (1) eliminates T so you can calculate acceleration:

ma = mgsin? - mgcos? - (Ia/r)

a[m + (I/r)] = mg(sin? - cos?)
a = mg(sin? - cos?) / [m + (I/r)]
= (5.00kg)(9.80m/s)(sin36.9 - 0.250cos36.9) / [5.00kg + (0.500kgm / (0.200m)]

= 1.12m/s

Then plugging this result into (2), the tension is:

T = Ia/r
= (0.500kgm)(1.12m/s) / (0.200m)
= 14N