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Q.What about the kinetic friction between the road and the tyres (on a banked road)?

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Rolling tyres engage static friction; kinetic friction takes over only after a slide starts — and being weaker, it cannot restore the grip that static friction just lost.

On a banked road, as long as the vehicle's tyres roll without slipping, the contact patches are momentarily at rest on the road and the friction available is STATIC — this is what Eqs. (1.3)–(1.4)'s limits are built from (fs≤μsNf_s \leq \mu_sN). If the vehicle goes slower than vminv_{min}, it begins to slide DOWN the incline; faster than vmaxv_{max}, it slides UP and outward. From that instant the relevant friction is KINETIC: direction opposite to the slide, magnitude μkN\mu_kN with μk<μs\mu_k < \mu_s. Because the kinetic value is smaller than the static limit whose exceedance started the slide, the net unbal …

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