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A railroad coal car weighs 54,600 lb empty and carries a total load of 180,000 lb of coal. The bins are equipped with bottom doors which permit discharging coal through an opening between the rails. If the car dumps coal at the rate of 20,000 lb /sec in a downward direction relative to the car, and if frictional resistance to motion is 4 lb per ton of total remaining weight, determine the coupler force P required to give the car an acceleration of \(0.15 \mathrm{\ ft} / \mathrm{sec}^{2}\) in the direction of P at the instant when half the coal has been dumped.

                         

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Title Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics 8 
Author James L. Meriam, L. G. Kraige, J. N. Bolton
ISBN 9781118885840

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