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Thanks. Yeah, sorry I never replied back last night. But I did get the right answers. As soon as I figured out what was going on, everything just clicked. What I was doing wrong for c and d was that I wasn't accounting for the the change in force. I just found the force with those...

I figured it out. Now I feel stupid. Since acceleration is 0 (constant velocity), there would be no change in the force. So for b) the answer would still be 225.4N.

A 23 kg box hangs from a rope. What is the tension in the rope if the following are true? a)The box is at rest? b)The box moves up at a steady 5.0 m/s? c)The box has Vy = 5.0 m/s and is speeding up at 5.0 m/s^2? d)The box has Vy = 5.0 m/s and is slowing down at 5.0 m/s^2 I have...