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SSteve4Physics reacted to jbriggs444's post in the thread Find the acceleration of a block (some sort of double Atwood machine?) with
Agree.
This is fine in isolation. One often picks a sign convention to try to keep all quantities positive. If one guesses wrong, the worst... -
SSteve4Physics replied to the thread Find the acceleration of a block (some sort of double Atwood machine?).@michelp, this is a bit late in the day, but it might explain the misunderstanding... In the case of a simple Atwood machine (with...
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SSteve4Physics replied to the thread Undergrad 20 Megapascals of negative pressure... What? Please explain.A few thoughts... 20MPa is not exceptional. E.g. 20MPa is the tension in a 1mm diameter vertical string with 1.6kg hanging from it...
