Person A is pulling a cart with mass 40 kg to the right, and Person A applies 500 N of force to the cart. (a) What is the acceleration of the cart (both magnitude and direction)?    Person B comes in and starts pulling the cart to the left with 260 N of force. (b) What is the net force acting on the cart when both Person A and Person B are pulling the cart (both magnitude and direction)?  (c) What is the acceleration of the cart when both Person A and Person B are pulling the cart (both magnitude and direction)?    Person C comes in and starts pulling the cart along with Person A and Person B. When the cart is accelerating to the right at the rate of 3 m/s2, (d) what is the net force acting on the cart (both magnitude and direction)?  (e) what is the force Person C applies to the cart (both magnitude and direction)?

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Person A is pulling a cart with mass 40 kg to the right, and Person A applies 500 N of force to the cart.

(a) What is the acceleration of the cart (both magnitude and direction)? 

 

Person B comes in and starts pulling the cart to the left with 260 N of force.

(b) What is the net force acting on the cart when both Person A and Person B are pulling the cart (both magnitude and direction)? 

(c) What is the acceleration of the cart when both Person A and Person B are pulling the cart (both magnitude and direction)? 

 

Person C comes in and starts pulling the cart along with Person A and Person B. When the cart is accelerating to the right at the rate of 3 m/s2,

(d) what is the net force acting on the cart (both magnitude and direction)? 

(e) what is the force Person C applies to the cart (both magnitude and direction)? 

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