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Physics Rotational Mechanics Level: High School

By means of a rope whose is mass is negligible , two blocks are suspended over a pulley , as the drawing at “click here” shows, with m1 = 11.7 kg and m2 = 45.3 kg . The pulley can be treated as a uniform, solid , cylindrical disk . The downward acceleration of the 45.3 kg block to be exactly one-half the acceleration due to gravity . Noting that the tension in the rope is not the same on each side of the pulley, find the mass of the pulley .