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Your shopping cart has mass of 65 kg. In order of accelerate the shopping cart down an aisle at 0.3 m/sec^2, what force would you need to use or apply to the cart?

User Aesir
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Fnet = m x a
= 65kg x 0.3m/s^2
= 19.5N
This is assuming that there is no friction or other external forces!
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