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Simple Tension

  1. Sep 14, 2005 #1

    DaRotot

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    A 5.5-kg object is suspended by a string from the ceiling of an elevator that is accelerating downward at a rate of 2.5 m/s^2 What is the tension in the string?
     
    DaRotot, Sep 14, 2005
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  3. Sep 15, 2005 #2

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    mg - T = ma
     
    mukundpa, Sep 15, 2005
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