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free body diagram for masses

  figure139

Above are the free body diagrams for each mass. The net force on the first mass is

equation143

The net force on the second mass is

equation146

Applying tex2html_wrap_inline832 and tex2html_wrap_inline834 we have

  equation151

and

  equation154



Joshua Deutsch
Sun Feb 23 15:54:50 PST 1997