Tom Bombadil is taking his new refrigerator home on his pickup truck. The refrig

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Tom Bombadil is taking his new refrigerator home on his pickup truck. The refrigerator weighs 200 lb and can be treated as a uniform rectangular block with a center of gravity 2.5 ft above the wheel base. It is secured with rope to the top of the cab, and to the back of bed as shown in the picture. Tom is using rope that is only rated for 40 lb. What oum forward acceleration the truck can experience before this transport method inning to tip. You may ignore any friction, size, and mass for the cart wheels and assume that the back rope is fails? Failure is defined as either the rope breaking or the refrigerator beg slack while the truck is accelerating. Lip 2,5 F1

Explanation / Answer

From newtons second law

F=ma

a=F/m

now a max = Fmax/m

here max force = m max * g

m max = 40lb = m

therefore a max = g = 32.2 ft/s2

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