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Posted by brandon on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 6:56pm.

A woman at an airport is pulling her 19.0 kg by a strap at an angle of 32 ° above the horizontal as shown in figure Fig. P5.44. She pulls on the strap with a 40.0 N force, and friction is negligible.

(a) What is the acceleration of the suitcase?
(b) What normal force does the ground exert on the suitcase?

science/physics - bobpursley, Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 7:52pm
figure the vertical and horizontal components of the pulling force.

a=horizonalcomponentpulling force/mass

normal force=mg-verticalcomponentforce

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