A truck is hauling a trailer along a level road with acceleration of 0.78 m/s2.  The mass of the truck is 8500 kg and the mass of the trailer is 27,000 kg.  Ignoring the friction determine the tension of the cable that attach trailer to the truck.

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Newton's Second Law

Newton’s laws of motion describe the relationship between the motion of an object and forces acting on it. Newton’s law of motion has two types as follows: