We want to see which one of the two animals accelerates the fastest. We will see that the mouse is the one that accelerates the fastest.
The first thing you need to remember is Newton's second law.
Force equals mass times acceleration, or:
F = m*a
We know that the mass of the cat is:
M = 5kg
the mass of the mouse is:
m = 0.5kg
If we apply the same force F to both animals, we will get:
for the cat:
F = 5kg*a
For the mouse:
F = 0.5kg*a'
Solving these equations for a and a' we get:
a = F/5kg
a' = F/0.5kg
So a' has a smaller denominator, thus, the value of a' is larger, which implies that the mouse is the one that accelerates the fastest.
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