You have designed an Atwood elevator for your tree house, see figure below.  Being a curious physics student you use a detector to measure its motion.  You put a different mass (M1) in the elevator, counter-balanced by M2 = 10 kg.  M1 falls to the ground while M2 rises.  Your detector measures an acceleration of 0.85 m/s2 . What is the mass M1 in kg?

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You have designed an Atwood elevator for your tree house, see figure below.  Being a curious physics student you use a detector to measure its motion.  You put a different mass (M1) in the elevator, counter-balanced by M2 = 10 kg.  M1 falls to the ground while M2 rises.  Your detector measures an acceleration of 0.85 m/s2 .

What is the mass M1 in kg?

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