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Excellent, and thanks again for all your help!

Thank-you so much, I haven't done anything educational like this for a good few years now and am doing a distance learning course. Its very rewarding and I am enjoying it, however the lack of a lecturer is often a restriction as discussion is a brilliant way to aid understanding! So I have had...

Ohh! Gravity is acting on the mass pulling it downwards, however as we calculated it is only accelerating at 0.44 m s ^-2 not 9.81 m s ^-2 therefore the rope is subject to the tensional force of the difference between the two once plugged into the second law? I have drawn a FBD (which is how I...

Hello and thank-you! The U in my step is is the initial velocity value, which in this case is 0 so becomes irrelevant. I have this picture from the question: I understand how the acceleration of the mass due to gravity acts upon the 0.5kg mass and causes the F = m g to act upon the rope...

Homework Statement A mass of 0.5 kg is suspended from a flywheel as shown in FIGURE 2. If the mass is released from rest and falls a distance of 0.5 m in 1.5 s. Mass of wheel: 3kg Outside rad. of gyration of wheel: 300mm Radius of gyration: 212mm calculate: (a) The linear acceleration of the...