niha Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Car pulls trailer of mass 500 kg . The friction acting on the car is 1200 n and that on the trailer is 400 N . At first the acc of the car and trailer system is 2 m/s^2 What is the tension In coupling btw the car and the trailer for this acc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 FizziksGuy Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Hi Niha. A great place to start would be a free body diagram of the trailer. You have friction to the left (400N), and the tension to the right. You also know it is accelerating at 2 m/s/s, so you could write Newton's 2nd Law, F=ma, as T-400N=500kg(a), and solve for T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Car pulls trailer of mass 500 kg . The friction acting on the car is 1200 n and that on the trailer is 400 N . At first the acc of the car and trailer system is 2 m/s^2
What is the tension In coupling btw the car and the trailer for this acc?
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