# To find the acceleration of three blocks and the tension of strings if they are horizontally placed and pulled from the Right side [closed]

Find the Acceleration of blocks A, B and C, and tensions in the strings. All the blocks are of equal masses of 10kg. Also F = 60N.

Let's name the leftmost block as A, middle one as B and Rightmost as C

As we can see that the Question has 2 parts:

1. To find the Acceleration of each Block.
2. To find the tensions of the string ($$T_1$$ and $$T_2$$).

How I tried to solve the Problem:

For A:

$$F - T = 10 a_1 \Rightarrow 60 - T_1 = 10a_1$$ -------(1)

For B:

$$T_1 - T_2 = ma_2 \Rightarrow 60 - 10a_1 - T_2 = 10a_2$$ (from (1) )

For C:

$$T_2 = ma_3 \Rightarrow 6 = a_1 + a_2 + a_3$$ (from last eqn. and further simplifying)

But, this is certainly not any closer to the 1st part which asks for acceleration of 3 Blocks. I don't have a single idea how to deal here with 3 acceleration variables ($$a_1 , a_2$$ and $$a_3$$) and 3 tension Variables ($$T_1 , T_2$$ and $$T_3$$) and use those here. I'm missing something here and I don't know how to proceed with the equations further.

For the second part, I can make a wild guess that tensions should be equal everywhere in the string, but as explained earlier due to the problem with equations I don't have enough idea to prove it as I've explained earlier that I had problems with the equation.

Note: My assumptions about the second part that tensions should be equal everywhere can be wrong as it's just a mere guess, I've not proved it.

Any help/hint is appreciated,

Best Regards :)

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• Hint: What would happen to the system if the blocks were not all accelerating at the same rate...? – Garf Oct 16 '18 at 15:49
• @Garf If there is uneven acceleration then they'd either collide with each other or they'd try to go apart which is certainly not the possible case according to the question :P :) – Abhas Kumar Sinha Oct 16 '18 at 15:53
• Please note that this site is not a place to obtain solutions to worked problems. Please see this Meta post on asking homework-like questions and this Meta post for "check my work problems". – Kyle Kanos Oct 17 '18 at 10:11
• @KyleKanos I appreciate that you gave your time to help me. Can you help me further by giving examples of how should I post these kinds of questions? So that I can edit it and make it useful for the community members? – Abhas Kumar Sinha Oct 17 '18 at 15:30
• @AbhasKumarSinha the first of the links I give should help. Basically don't ask us to do your work, ask us about the specific physics concept that is preventing you from understanding the problem – Kyle Kanos Oct 17 '18 at 15:53