In the Atwood\'s Machine Lab, lab partners Anna Litical and Noah Formula connect a 3.41 kg and 8.98 kg by a light string and stretch the string over a \"frictionless\" pulley. A a. Draw a free-body diagram of the system showing the external forces acting on it. 

Calculate the acceleration of this two-mass system when it is released. 

b. Next, draw the FBD of one of the masses (either one). Calculate the tension in the string connecting the masses as it accelerates.