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You are pulling your friend on a sled with a constant velocity using a rope held horizontally in the snow. The combined mass of the sled and your friend is 64.0 kg, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.200. Determine the pulling tension on the sled.

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When you are pulling a sled with constant velocity with a rope then the ground exerts a surface force on the sled will be equal to 573.56 N.

What is tension?

The pulling force delivered axially by a cable, string, chain, or by either end of a rod, truss member, or another such 3-D object is known as tension in physics. Tension can be described as the action-reaction pair of forces acting at each end while tension is a polar opposite of compression.

A restoring force causes tension when atoms or molecules are torn apart at the atomic level and build up potential energy.

When you are trying to move upward and push in a positive way,

F = - 112 i + 57.4 (9.8) j

F = -112 i + 562.52 j

F = √(−112)² + (562.52)²

F = √12544 +316428.7

F = 573.56 N

Therefore, the surface force the ground exerts on the sled is 572.52 N.

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