Abox of mass rests on a frictionless horizontal shelf and

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Abox of mass rests on a frictionless horizontal shelf and is attached by strings to boxes of masses and as shown in Figure 4-51. Both pulleys are frictionless and massless. The system is released from rest. After it is released, find (a) the acceleration of each of the boxes, and (b) the

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QUESTION:

Abox of mass rests on a frictionless horizontal shelf and is attached by strings to boxes of masses and as shown in Figure 4-51. Both pulleys are frictionless and massless. The system is released from rest. After it is released, find (a) the acceleration of each of the boxes, and (b) the

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Newton's second law of motion states that the net force acting on an object is directly proportional to the acceleration of the object and is given by,

Here,  is the mass and  is the acceleration.

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