In the Figure, What Does the Spring Scale Read? the Pulleys

question 41

Multiple Choice

In the figure, what does the spring scale read? The pulleys are ideal and the strings and scale are also massless.

• A) exactly 2.0 N.
• B) exactly 1.0 N
• C) 0.50 N
• D) 0.00 N
• E) more than 19.6 N

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