Homework Help: Physics URGENT!!!

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 7:51pm.

Two boxes of fruit on a frictionless horizontal surface are connected by a light string as in the figures below, where m1 = 15 kg and m2 = 17 kg. A force of 58 N is applied to the 17 kg box.
(a1) Determine the acceleration of the boxes (b) the tension of the string (c)

Physics URGENT!!! - bobpursley, Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 7:52pm
58=(m1+m2)a solve for a

Tension between=m2*a
Physics URGENT!!! - Anonymous, Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 8:04pm
I still don't understand how to find the tension of the string!

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