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A contestant in a winter sports event pulls a 55.0 kg block of ice across a frozen lake with a rope over his shoulder at an angle above the horizontal as shown below. (Enter the magnitudes. Assume that friction is not negligible.)
(a) Calculate the minimum force F (in N) he must exert to get the block moving.
______N
(b) What is its acceleration (in m/s2) once it starts to move, if that force is maintained?
______m/s^2
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