askiitian expert Rahul iitd
Last Activity: 11 Years ago
This question can be easily solved if we consider chain as a whole being suspended due to the presence of table, that is the reason chain is not falling is that its weight is balanced by table.
Hence total force exerted by chain on table is equivalent to its weight W = mg = 19.6N.
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Rahul kumar
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IIT Delhi