A body of mass 3.00 kg is at rest on a smooth horizontal table. This body is connected by a light string, which passes over a smooth pulley at the edge of the table, to another body of mass 2.00 kg hanging freely. As the pulley is smooth, the tension in the string on both sides of the pulley will be the same. The string is said to be light, so its weight can be ignored. As the string is inextensible, when the system is released from rest the two bodies will have equal accelerations along the line of the string. Calculate the acceleration and the tension.

A body of mass 3.00 kg is at rest on a smooth horizontal table. This body is connected by a light string, which passes over a smooth pulley at the edge of the table, to another body of mass 2.00 kg hanging freely. As the pulley is smooth, the tension in the string on both sides of the pulley will be the same. The string is said to be light, so its weight can be ignored. As the string is inextensible, when the system is released from rest the two bodies will have equal accelerations along the line of the string. Calculate the acceleration and the tension.

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A body of mass 3.00 k g is at rest on a smooth horizontal table. This body is connected by a light string, which passes over a smooth pulley at the edge of the table, to another body of mass 2.00 k g hanging freely. As the pulley is smooth, the tension in the string on both sides of the pulley will be the same. The string is said to be light, so its weight can be ignored. As the string is inextensible, when the system is released from rest the two bodies will have equal accelerations along the line of the string. Calculate the acceleration and the tension.

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