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  4. An elevator weighing 6000 kg is pulled upward by a cable with an acceleration of 5 ms-2.Taking g to be 10 ms-2, the tension (in newton) in the cable is

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Q. An elevator weighing $6000$ kg is pulled upward by a cable with an acceleration of $5\, ms^{-2}$.Taking $g$ to be $10 \,ms^{-2}$, the tension (in newton) in the cable is

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Solution:

$T = m\left(g +a\right) =6000\left(10 +5\right) =90000N$