Homework Statement
A tugboat pulls two barges down the river. The barge connected to the tugboat, carrying coal, has an
inertia of 2.2 × 105 kg, and the other barge, carrying pig iron, has an inertia of 3.5 × 105 kg.The resistive
force between the coal barge and the water is 8.0 × 103 N, and...