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smitheric420
Oct5-04, 04:47 PM
a cart on a (frictionless)inclined plane is attached to a load by a string that passes thru a frictionless pully. mass of cart =7.6 kg, mass of load = 4.2 kg, acc = 1.2 m/s^2. what is the angle of the plane?

Pyrrhus
Oct5-04, 05:12 PM
What have you done?

Do a free body diagram

Use Newton's 2nd Law

\sum_{i=1}^{n} \vec{F}_{i} = m \vec{a}

Diane_
Oct5-04, 06:48 PM
It's also worth noting that the masses will turn out to be irrelevant to the answer.