You have to drag a rectangular packing trunk up an incline.
• Is it easier if you lay it flat, or tip it onto one end?
You have to drag a rectangular packing trunk up an incline.
• Is it easier if you lay it flat, or tip it onto one end?
No difference !! F = m*g*(sin Θ + cos Θ*μ)
...and friction coefficient μ just depends upon the nature of the surfaces in contact
it is the same!
it does not depend on the extension of the contact surface between the two bodies