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Who wins a tug of war?

Could a team of children beat the English rugby team in a tug of war? Ken Zetie analyses the forces involved, and explains how these determine who wins

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In a tug of war, tension and friction are important forces. To analyse their effect we use free body diagrams, Newton’s third law of motion and vector resolution.

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