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Arriving on a newly discovered planet, the captain of a spaceship performed the following...

Arriving on a newly discovered planet, the captain of a spaceship performed the following experiment to calculate the gravitational acceleration for the planet: He placed masses of

100.0 g and 200.0 g on an Atwood device made of massless string and a frictionless pulley and measured that it took 1.52 s for each mass to travel 1.00 m from rest.

a) What is the gravitational acceleration for the planet?


b) What is the tension in the string?

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