Two wooden blocks are moving on a smooth horizontal surface such that the mass m remains stationary with respect to block of mass M as shown in figure. The magnitude of force P is:
Hii,
The solution to this is as follows:
Acceleration of the system:
a* P/M+m.........(1)
The FBD of mass
mm
is shown.
Rsinβ=ma.....(2)
Rcosβ=mg.....
(3)
A => anβ
Putting the value of a in (1), we get
P=(M+m)>anβ
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