Tug of War

Tug of War#

In a game of tug of war, two teams pull on opposite sides of a rope to tug the opposing team towards them. One team is made of 6 children. Their weights are \(51\ \rm{lb}\), \(56\ \rm{lb}\), \(64\ \rm{lb}\), \(67\ \rm{lb}\), \(60\ \rm{lb}\), \(65\ \rm{lb}\), and they pull with forces of \(104\ \rm{N}\), \(125\ \rm{N}\), \(115\ \rm{N}\), \(82\ \rm{N}\), \(117\ \rm{N}\), \(132\ \rm{N}\). On the other side, a \({{params.adultWeight}} \ \rm{lb}\) adult pulls the rope with a force of \({{params.adultForce}} \ \rm{N}\).

Part 1#

What is the acceleration of the rope with the people? Give a positive answer if it moves towards the adult, and negative if it moves towards the children.

Answer Section#

Please enter in a numeric value in \(m/s^2\).

Attribution#

Problem is licensed under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
The Creative Commons 4.0 license requiring attribution-BY, non-commercial-NC, and share-alike-SA license.

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