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Consider the double Atwood's machine as shown in the figure

(a) What is acceleration of the masses?
(b) What is the tension in each string?

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(a) Here the system behaves as a rigid system, therefore every part of the system will move with same acceleration. Thus Applying newton's law
`{:(mg-T=ma,...(1)),(2T-mg=ma,...(2)):}`
Doubling the first equation and adding
`mg=3maimplies"acceleration"a=1/3g`
(b) Tension in the string `t=m(g-a)=m(g-(g)/(3))=2/3mg`
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