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Haniah
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Homework Statement
A group of construction workers are building a house and want to lower down an excess bundle of 1400 kg bricks to ground. They tie one end of a rope to the bundle of bricks, loop it through a pulley, and tie the other end of the rope to a toolbox. If the coefficient of kinetic friction between the toolbox and the floor is 0.690 and the acceleration of the bundle of bricks is 4.56 m/s2, what is the mass of the toolbox?
where A=toolbox
and B=bricks
Homework Equations
T-ukmBg=-mBaA
T-mAg=mAaA
(mA-ukmB)g=-(mA+mB)aA
The Attempt at a Solution
mA = ((gukmB)-(amB))/(a+g)
I tried to solve by using this rearranged formula but did not get the right answer. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing. I am also assuming that acceleration (4.56 m/s2) is uniform, is this a correct assumption.