Question

The largemouth bass, locally called tawis, is plentiful in Pantabangan lake and is a good sporting fish. A 2-kg tawis is a normal catch. If an angler (a fisherman) catches five such tawis and strung his catch on a string and hangs his catch on a camachile tree, what is the tension in the string?

Answer 1

According to Newton's second law:

$T=nmg,$

where T - the tension of the string,

n - the number of tawises,

m - the mass of one tawis,

g - gravitational acceleration.

So,

$T=5\cdot 2\cdot 9.8=98 \space N.$