Your shopping cart has a mass of 65 kilograms. In order to accelerate the shopping cart down an aisle at 0.3 m/sec2, what force would you need to use or apply to the cart?
Chemistry · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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Given :
Mass, m = 65 kg
Acceleration, a = 0.3 m/sec²
F = ?
Formula :
Force = mass × Acceleration
= 65 × 0.3 N
= 19.5 N
Hence, force of 19.5 N is required to accelerate the shopping cart down an aisle at 0.3 m/sec².