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Figure shows a section of an alpine cable-car system. The maximum permitted mass of each car with occupants is 2800 kg. The cars, riding on a support cable, are pulled by a second cable attached to each pylon. What is the difference in tension between adjacent sections of pull cable if the cars are accelerated up to 35° incline at 0.81 m/s 2 ?

Figure shows a section of an alpine cable-car system. The maximum permitted mass of each car with occupants is 2800 kg. The cars, riding on a support cable, are pulled by a second cable attached to each pylon. What is the difference in tension between adjacent sections of pull cable if the cars are accelerated up to 35° incline at 0.81 m/s2?
 

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Jitender Pal
askIITians Faculty 365 Points
9 years ago
The magnitude of the weight of the trolley can be calculated by multiplying the mass of the trolley and the acceleration due to gravity.
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Rounding off to 2 significant figures,
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Therefore the magnitude of the difference in tension between adjacent section of pull cable is 1.8 x 104 N.

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