
Two persons are holding a rope of negligible weight tightly at its ends so that it is horizontal. A weight is attached to the rope at the midpoint which now no longer remains horizontal. The minimum tension required to completely straighten the rope is


Important Questions on Laws of Motion
Two masses are connected by a string which passes over a pulley accelerating upward at a rate as shown. If and be the acceleration of bodies and , respectively then

In the shown figure, acceleration of mass is

If points and both are acceleration with acceleration a downward, mass will move with

The ratio of magnitudes of acceleration of and is

In the arrangement shown in the figure the ends and of an unstretchable string move downwards with uniform speed . Pulleys and are fixed. Mass moves upwards with a speed.

The ratio of magnitudes of acceleration of and is

In the figure shown, the pulley is moving with velocity . The velocity of the block attached with string

The velocity of end of rigid rod placed between two smooth vertical walls moves with velocity along vertical direction. The velocity of end of that rod, rod always remains in contact with the vertical walls.
