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2) Joe and Bill are playing tug-of-war. Joe is pulling with a force of 200 N. Bill hanging on to the rope. Neither person is moving. What is the tension of the rope? is simply
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Only unbalanced forces cause acceleration. Since Bill is not accelerating, the 200N force must be exactly balanced by both. Thus the the tension of the string is 200N.

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