Laws of Motion

A trolley is being self-pulled up an incline plane by a man sitting in it. He applies a force of 250 N. If the combined mass of the man and trolley is 100 kg, find the acceleration of the trolley.

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Himanshu Giria ·

Then just draw the F.B.D. of man and trolley together and you will get it

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Manish Sarkar ·

Is there any friction??

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Aniq Ur Rahman ·

No friction

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Manish Sarkar ·

is the accln. 14.5 m/s^2??

466
Himanshu Giria ·

Is it 4.128 ms-2

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Aniq Ur Rahman ·

The Answer is 5 ms-2.
It's in Shastras (Pg. 15) but I'm not able to get the answer

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Aniq Ur Rahman ·

I'm sorry! it's 15° not 5°

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Himanshu Giria ·

Then just draw the F.B.D. of man and block and you will get it

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Akash Anand ·

Here is the one line solution:

3T-100g=100a

Put T = 250N and g= 10m/s^2 you will get a = 4.91≈5 m/s^2

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