Question

Nellie pulls on a 10kg wagon with a constant horizontal force of 30N. If there are no other horizontal gorces what is the wagons acceleration?

Answer 1

Answer:

$a=3m/s^2$

Explanation:

If we have a net force F acting on a body of mass m it will experiment an acceleration a. Newton's 2nd Law gives us the relation between these quantities: F=ma.

In our case, we want to calculate the acceleration, so we write:

$a=\frac{F}{m}$

With the values we have we get:

$a=\frac{30N}{10Kg}=3m/s^2$