Question

Your shopping cart has a mass of 63.9 kilograms. In order to accelerate the shopping cart down an aisle at 0.22 m/s^2, what force (in newtons, N) would you need to apply to the cart?Answer: ________ N

Answer 1

Given:

The mass of the cart is,

`m=63.9\text{ kg}`

The acceleration of the cart is,

`a=0.22\text{ m/s}^2`

To find:

The force applied to the cart

Step-by-step explanation:

The force on the cart is,

`\begin{gathered} F=ma \\ =63.9*0.22 \\ =14.06\text{ N} \end{gathered}`

Hence, the force is 14.06 N.