JEE Main 2022 — Laws Of Motion Question with Solution
From: JEE Main 2022 (Online) 29th June Evening Shift
Question
A block of mass 40 kg slides over a surface, when a mass of 4 kg is suspended through an inextensible massless string passing over frictionless pulley as shown below.
The coefficient of kinetic friction between the surface and block is 0.02. The acceleration of block is. (Given g = 10 ms2.)

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= 8 N
Let the acceleration is a as shown then.
m/s2
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