A contestant in a winter sporting event pushes a 27 kg block of ice across a frozen lake as shown below. The angle between the applied force F and the horizontal is 23 degrees. The coefficient of static friction between the ice and the frozen lake is 0.06. Calculate the minimum force F he must exert to get the block moving.

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Newton's Second Law

Newton’s laws of motion describe the relationship between the motion of an object and forces acting on it. Newton’s law of motion has two types as follows: