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Posted by eddie on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 8:01pm.

Find the the force the person must exert on the 14.5 kg lawn mower to accelerate it from rest to 1.5m/s in 2.5 seconds?

physics - drwls, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 8:09pm
The required acceleration is
a = (1.5 m/s)/2.5 s = 0.6 m/s62,
and the force is
F = m a

(m is the mass in kg. F will be in Newtons)

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