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5.1 Exercise 26

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A contestant in a winter sporting event pushes a 45.0-kg block of ice across a frozen lake as shown in the figure(a). (a) Calculate the minimum force F F he must exert to get the block moving. (b) What is the magnitude of its acceleration once it starts to move, if that force is maintained?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 5.1 Friction, exercise 26

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