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I don't have one because I'm not sure about the difference.

I do not, It would still have the Normal force, and mg and Tension would still be in the same direction. So I'm a little lost. Would there only be one tension force?

Summary:: An inventive child named Nick wants to reach an apple in a tree without climbing the tree. Sitting in a chair connected to a rope that passes over a frictionless pulley (see figure below), Nick pulls on the loose end of the rope with such a force that the spring scale reads 350 N...