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Sort of urgent. I've been looking at this problem for days and it's due tomorrow afternoon.
Draw a free body diagram for each of the masses. All surfaces are frictionless. The pulley is massless and frictionless. The connecting strings denoted by dotted lines are massless and inextensible. [tex]M_{1}[/tex] has no acceleration in the y-direction (forces cancel)
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I have none. This is part a of a multistep problem and I know how to do the other parts if I can get this part. Unfortunately, I'm awful at free body diagrams, especially in an accelerating system. And it's due tomorrow afternoon. After several days of trying I have nothing to show for it.
EDIT: Have I done this correctly?[PLAIN]http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/1176/img0079hh.jpg
[PLAIN]http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/141/img0080ch.jpg
Homework Statement
Draw a free body diagram for each of the masses. All surfaces are frictionless. The pulley is massless and frictionless. The connecting strings denoted by dotted lines are massless and inextensible. [tex]M_{1}[/tex] has no acceleration in the y-direction (forces cancel)
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The Attempt at a Solution
I have none. This is part a of a multistep problem and I know how to do the other parts if I can get this part. Unfortunately, I'm awful at free body diagrams, especially in an accelerating system. And it's due tomorrow afternoon. After several days of trying I have nothing to show for it.
EDIT: Have I done this correctly?[PLAIN]http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/1176/img0079hh.jpg
[PLAIN]http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/141/img0080ch.jpg
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