At an airport, luggage is unloaded from a plane into the three cars of a luggage

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At an airport, luggage is unloaded from a plane into the three cars of a luggage carrier, as the drawing shows. The acceleration of the carrier is 0.163 m/s2, and friction is negligible. The coupling bars have negligible mass. If 30.5 kg of luggage were removed from car 2 and placed in car 1, by how much would the tension change in coupling bars (a) A, (b) B, and (c) C? If instead 30.5 kg of luggage were removed from car 2 and placed in car 3, by how much would the tension change in coupling bars (d) A, (e) B, and (f) C? In each case, give your answer as a positive number if the tension increases, and negative if it decreases.

Explanation / Answer

change in tension in coupling bars= m *a =30.5* .163 =4.9715 N tension is in a positive number if the tension increases in car1 and decrease in car 2 b)for same magnitude tension changes is 4.9715 N tension is in a positive number if the tension increases for car 3 and decrease in car 2

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