If a person pulls on a cart to the right with a force of 10 N and a second person pulls to the left with a force of 3 N, what is the net force (+ direction) on the cart?
Opposite direction cancels both, thus using minus.
And since the person pulling the cart to the right exerted more force than the person pulling the cart to the left, the cart would obviously be successfully pulled to the right.
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Answer:
7 N to the right
Explanation:
10 N - 3 N = 7 N
Opposite direction cancels both, thus using minus.
And since the person pulling the cart to the right exerted more force than the person pulling the cart to the left, the cart would obviously be successfully pulled to the right.