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The cement bag shown in the figure has a mass of 50 kg and the small pulley has a mass of 2 kg. if the cement bag is pulled upwards with an acceleration of 2 m/s^2, find the force f pulling the rope.

Lacie kicks a football from ground level at a velocity of 13.9 m/s and at an angle of 25.0° to the ground. how long will the ball be in the air before it lands? how far will the football travel before it lands?

Aboat radioed a distress call to a coast guard station. at the time of the call, a vector a from the station to the boat had a magnitude of 45.0 km and was directed 15.0° east of north. a vector from the station to the point where the boat was later found is = 30.0 km, 15.0° north of east. what are the components of the vector from the point where the distress call was made to point where the boat was found? in other words, what are the components of vector c = b - a?