With what minimum acceleration can a fireman slide down a rope whose breaking strength is two third of his weight?

 We’ve been given a rope with a breaking strength equal to two-thirds of the foreman sliding down on it; hence, the rope has a tension equal to two-thirds of the foreman’s weight in an upwards direction.

Let m represent a foreman’s mass.

Thus, we have W = mg (downward direction), T = 2/3mg (upwards direction)

Where W is the weight of a foreman and T is a tension

Now applying Newton’s Second Law of Motion on a foreman sliding downwards

F = ma

F is here is T – W (net force)

Substituting this in the above formula, we get 2/3mg−mg = ma

Cancelling out m and solving LHS we get a = −g/3

Therefore, the minimum acceleration is g3 in the downwards direction.

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