Lesson: Applications of Newton’s Second Law: Horizontal Pulley Mathematics

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In this lesson, we will learn how to solve problems on the motion of two bodies connected by a string passing over a smooth pulley, where one is on a horizontal table.

Lesson Plan

Students will be able to

find missing forces and masses in systems involving a body on a horizontal plane connected to another body suspended below a smooth pulley,
use Newton’s second law of motion and the equations of motion to solve horizontal plane and pulley problems,
find the force exerted on the pulley connecting a mass on a horizontal surface to a vertically hanging mass.