A contestant in a winter sporting event pulls a 43 kg block of ice in the positive horizontal direction with a rope over his shoulders across a frozen lake as shown in the figure. Assume the coefficients of static and kinetic friction are µs=0.1 and µk=0.03. Calculate the minimum force F he must exert to get the block sliding in newtons? What is its acceleration in m/s2 once

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A contestant in a winter sporting event pulls a 43 kg block of ice in the positive horizontal direction with a rope over his shoulders across a frozen lake as shown in the figure. Assume the coefficients of static and kinetic friction are µs=0.1 and µk=0.03.

Calculate the minimum force F he must exert to get the block sliding in newtons?

What is its acceleration in m/s2 once it starts to move, if that force is maintained?

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