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

Explanation:

The force on the cart is,

$\begin{gathered} F=ma \\ =63.9\times0.22 \\ =14.06\text{ N} \end{gathered}$

Hence, the force is 14.06 N.