Question: Three astronauts, propelled by jet backpacks, push and guide a 120 kg asteroid toward a processing dock, exerting the forces shown in Figure, with F1

Three astronauts, propelled by jet backpacks, push and guide a 120 kg asteroid toward a processing dock, exerting the forces shown in Figure, with F1 = 32N, F2 = 55N, F3 = 41N, θ1 = 30o, and θ3 = 60o. What is the asteroid's acceleration?

(a) In unit-vector notation and as

(b) A magnitude and

(c) A direction relative to the positive direction of the x axis?

F2 40

F2 40

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