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Grade 12Mechanics

3 blocks of equal mass 3kgs hang from a fixed pulley.mass A is on one side and B and C on another.Find the tension in the string connecting B and C and why?

Profile image of Ashmita Bhattacharyya
14 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Chetan Mandayam Nayakar
14 Years ago

B and C accelerate downward at (2*3 -3)g/9 =g/3, let the tension in string connecting B and C be T.

3*g-T=3*(g/3)

solve for T

Profile image of Ashwin Muralidharan IIT Madras
14 Years ago

That gives the tension in the string connecting Block B and C.

 

Regards,

Ashwin (IIT Madras)

 

Profile image of Pranjal Mittal
14 Years ago

first we take a+b+c as a system

(6g-3g)/9=a

a=g/3

now 

force on C

3g-T=3*g/3

T=2g

Profile image of neeraj agarwal
14 Years ago

accln=g/3 =>3g-T=3g/3                                                                                                                                                                                         T=2g