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Chandasouk
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Homework Statement
A 4.80 kg bucket of water is accelerated upward by a cord of negligible mass whose breaking strength is 86.0 N.
Draw the free-body force diagram for the bucket.
Draw the force vectors with their tails at the dot. The orientation of your vectors will be graded. The exact length of your vectors will not be graded but the relative length of one to the other will be graded.
Okay, I calculated the weight of the bucket of water which is w = -47.04N . If I were to make a free body diagram, the vector of w would be smaller than that of the Tension correct? Am I supposed to do something with the 86 N they gave me?
[tex]\Sigma[/tex]Fy = 86N + -47.04N = 38.96N
In this case, the vector of w would be longer than that of tension?