Equilibrium: In the figure, what does the spring scale read? The pulleys are ideal and the strings and scale are also massless.

A. exactly 2.0 N.
B. exactly 1.0 N
C. 0.50 N
D. 0.00 N
E. more than 19.6 N


Answer: B

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