A hanging mass M is connected to a four times bigger mass by using a string-pulley arrangement, as shown in the figure. The bigger mass is placed on a horizontal ice-slab and being pulled by 2 Mg force. In this situation, tension in the string is x 5 M g  for x_________. Neglect mass of the string and fiction of the block (bigger mass) with ice slab.

 

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Using newton's law:

2mg – T = 4ma  - (1)

 T – mg = ma       - (2)

From (1) & (2) :

m g = 5 m a a = g 5 = 2 m / s 2  

T = m g + m g 5 = 6 m g 5  

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