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It doesn't specify after the system is released, I assume refers to that. But not in function of time, it asks for a specific formula of $$a_M$$ using $$M, m, \alpha$$

I have this homework, I spend 3 days trying to solve it but I still don't get it. The forces acting over M are the weight, the normal, the tension (up and down), and some internal force with mass m. In m the weight, tension and some internal force with mass M. Since there is a tension acting...