3. X You decide to go ice fishing one fine spring day, but quickly discover that

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3. X You decide to go ice fishing one fine spring day, but quickly discover that the ice is starting to break up. So, wearing your spiked ice shoes (so that you don't slip), you tie a rope to your 60 kg ice shack to pull it across the ice to shore. But your friend who has a 40 kg ice shack wants his shelter saved too, so you attach a rope between the two dwellings and try to pull both, and you find that you can accelerate your house and his at 2.5 m/s2. Assume no friction between the ice and shack. A) Draw a free body diagram for each of the three objects. B) What is the acceleration of the other house? C) What is the tension in the rope, F, that you are pulling? D) What is the tension in the rope, T, connecting the two houses? please show all steps Physics

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a)

B)

other house has also the same acceleration = 2.5 m/sec^2

c)

F -T = 60*2.5

T = 40*2.5 = 100 N

F = 100+ 150 = 250 N

d)

tension in rope,T = 100 N

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