Carts Definition and 60 Threads

A cart or dray (Aus. & NZ) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people.
It is different from the flatbed trolley also known as a dray, (for freight) or wagon, which is a heavy transport vehicle with four wheels and typically two or more humans.
Over time, the term "cart" has come to mean nearly any small conveyance, including shopping carts, golf carts, gokarts, and UTVs, without regard to number of wheels, load carried, or means of propulsion.
The draught animals used for carts may be horses, donkeys or mules, oxen, and even smaller animals such as goats or large dogs.

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    Circular motion - velocity of carts on a rollercoaster

    Homework Statement Six roller-coaster carts pass over the same semicircular "bump." The mass M of each cart (including passenger) and the normal force n of the track on the cart at the top of each bump are given in the figures. Rank the speeds (from largest to smallest) of the different carts...
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    Spring Constant air-track carts

    Two air-track carts, one on the left with mass 100g and one on the left with mass 300g) are sliding to the right at 1.0 m/s. There is a spring between them that has a spring constant of 100N/m and is compressed 4.2 cm. There is a string that holds the two carts together. The carts slide past a...
  3. L

    Two carts with masses of 8.0 kg and 1.8 kg, respectively, move on a friction

    [SOLVED] Two carts with masses of 8.0 kg and 1.8 kg, respectively, move on a friction Homework Statement Two carts with masses of 8.0 kg and 1.8 kg, respectively, move on a frictionless track with velocities of 8.0 m/s and 3.5 m/s. The carts stick together after colliding head-on. Find the...
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    Momentum of carts of different masses

    Homework Statement The drawing below shows two laboratory carts (each has a mass of 1.0 kg) X and Y in contact with a compressed exploder spring between them. The mass on cart Y is 2.84 kg, distance A is 12 cm, distance B is 18 cm. What mass must be placed on cart X, such that after the...
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    How to Balance Masses for Simultaneous Impact in a Momentum Problem?

    Homework Statement The drawing below shows two laboratory carts (each has a mass of 1.0 kg) X and Y in contact with a compressed exploder spring between them. The mass on cart Y is 2.17 kg, distance A is 60 cm, distance B is 90 cm. What mass must be placed on cart X, such that after the...
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    Conservation of Momentum of two carts Problem

    Homework Statement Two carts, each with a mass of 1kg, are moving along a track towards one another. One cart is moving to the right at 4m/s and the other is moving to the left at 2m/s. Write down the momentum vector for each cart in column vector notation. Add these together to get the...
  7. M

    2 carts, a string, what is the work done?

    Homework Statement A cart of mass M1 = 6 kg is attached to a block of mass M2 = 3 kg by a string that passes over a frictionless pulley. The system is initially at rest and the table is frictionless. After the block has fallen a distance h = 1 m, What is the work Ws done on the cart by the...
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    Energy conservation (2 carts and a spring)

    Homework Statement A massless spring of spring constant 20 N/m is placed between two carts. Cart 1 has a mass M1 = 5 kg and Cart 2 has a mass M2 = 2 kg. The carts are pushed toward one another until the spring is compressed a distance 1.5 m. The carts are then released and the spring pushes...
  9. U

    Calculating Forces: 1kg & 0.5kg Carts

    There is a1kg cart with a 0.5kg cart attached to it. There is an applied force of 4N on the 1kg cart: --4N-->[1kg][0.5kg] What is the force on the 1kg cart due to the 0.5 kg cart? F=ma 4N=1.5a a=2.67m/s^2 F=ma F=(0.5)(2.67m/s^2) F=1.3 What is the force on the 0.5kg cart due to...
  10. suyver

    Two carts and their initial acceleration

    As promised in another thread: Riddle me this, riddle me that... There are two carts on the table. For each cart, there is a rope attached on one side to the cart and via a pulley it is hanging over the edge of the table. On the other end of one rope a 5 kg weight is attached and on the other...
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