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0 ebwmnqgk+q b -rv267shown in Fig. 4-51. A force  $\overrightarrow{\mathbf{F}}$  is applied to block 1 (mass  .$m_{1}$) . 
(a) Draw a free-body diagram for each block. Determine 
 (b)  the acceleration of the system (in terms of  $m_{1}$, $m_{2}$ , and $ m_{3}$  ), 
(c) the net force on each block,  
(d)  the force of contact that each block exerts on its neighbor.
(e) If  $m_{1}=m_{2}=m_{3}=12.0 \mathrm{~kg}$  and $ F=96.0 \mathrm{~N}$ , give numerical answers to  (b),(c) , and  (d) . Do your answers make sense intuitively?
