Homework Help: Science

Posted by leafprincess on Friday, December 29, 2006 at 7:19pm.

A 55 kg boy and 40 kg girl usa a rope while engaged in a tug-of-war. If the girl accelerates towards the boy at 5.1 m/s/s, what is the acceleration of the boy towards the girl?

The force on the rope is the same both ways.

Forceonrope=massgirl*accelerationgirl

solve for the force, then
force=massboy*accelerationboy.

No one has answered this question yet.

Answer this Question

Related Questions

Science - a 55 kh boy and 40 kg girl usa a rope while engaged in a tug-of-war ...
science - A 63 kg boy and a 44 kg girl use an elastic rope while engaged in a ...
physics6 - A 64-kg boy and a 42-kg girl use an elastic rope while engaged in a ...
Physics - A 57 kg boy and a 45 kg girl use an elastic rope while engaged in a ...
physic - A 57 kg boy and a 42 kg girl use an elastic rope while engaged in a tug...
Physics - Suppose a 68-kg boy and a 40-kg girl use a massless rope in a tug-of-...
Physics - Suppose a 68-kg boy and a 40-kg girl use a massless rope in a tug-of-...
physics - Suppose a 64-kg boy and a 49-kg girl use a massless rope in a tug-of-...
physics - Suppose a 65-kg boy and a 45-kg girl use a massless rope in a tug-of-...
physics - A 38.5 kg girl and a 57.0 kg boy are on the surface of a frozen lake, ...

For Further Reading

First Name:
School Subject:
Answer: