Recent content by Jonathan Schierl

No it actually doesn't play a role in this problem. We haven't learned that yet.

I don't believe mechanical advantage would play a role in this problem.

They both experience the same acceleration. The tension pulling both blocks will be the same because the string is massless

Homework Statement A 20-kg block with a pulley attached slides along a frictionless ledge. It is connected by a massless string to a 5.0-kg block via the arrangement shown in Figure. (a) draw complete free body diagrams for the masses and Find (b) the acceleration of each block and (c) the...