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(a) Draw a free-body diagram for each block. Determine
(b) the acceleration of the system (in terms of , , and ),
(c) the net force on each block,
(d) the force of contact that each block exerts on its neighbor.
(e) If and , give numerical answers to (b),(c) , and (d) . Do your answers make sense intuitively?