* A string pulls horizontally on a cart so that it moves at increasing speed along a smooth horizontal surface When the cart is moving medium-fast, the magnitude of the pulling force is reduced to half its former magnitude. (a) Describe what happens to the cart's motion after the reduction in the string pulling. (b) Illustrate your description with motion diagrams, force diagrams and position-versus-time and velocity-versus-time graphs.
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