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Newton's Law: Vectors

Q- Three astronauts, propelled by jet backpacks, push and guide a 195 kg asteroid toward a processing dock. One astronaut exerts a force of 30 N, 300 from positive x-axis towards positive y direction, second exerts a force of 55 N along the x-axis and third astronaut exerts a force of 41 N, 600 from the positive x-axis towards negative y direction.

(a) What is the asteroid's acceleration in unit-vector notation?

(b) What is the asteroid's acceleration as a magnitude and direction?

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