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Newton's 2nd Law: Advanced Examples
- Tension in a rope pulls throughout the rope. With some clever thought, we can use this fact to our advantage.
- By setting up multiple pulleys, we can cause the same tension to be applied multiple times, effectively multiplying our input force.
- Why isn't this crazy talk? We'll see why in the lesson on Power when we work on Energy.
- Making a good free-body diagram to show where all the forces are is incredibly important! Without it, we won't be able to make sense of the problem.
- Remember, if an object is experiencing an acceleration, it must have a force acting on it.
Newton's 2nd Law: Advanced Examples
Lecture Slides are screen-captured images of important points in the lecture. Students can download and print out these lecture slide images to do practice problems as well as take notes while watching the lecture.
- Intro
- Block and Tackle Pulley System
- Example 1: A Free-hanging, Massless String is Holding Up Three Objects of Unknown Mass
- Example 2: An Object is Acted Upon by Three Forces
- Example 3: A Chandelier is Suspended by a Cable From the Roof of an Elevator
- Example 4: A 20kg Baboon Climbs a Massless Rope That is Attached to a 22kg Crate
- Example 5: Two Blocks are Roped Together on Inclines of Different Angles































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