Each trawl is basically a rope strung with twenty-five lobster traps - wire cages,each the size of a big trunk.

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If your plan is to accelerate a 3 kg mass with an acceleration of 2 meters per second, you better have a rope that can furnish that force and it can take the tension of 6 Newtons.

如果你想用 2 米每秒平方的加速度,去拉一个 3 千克的物体,那么你就需要一根能提供拉力的绳子,并且它能够承受 6 牛的张力

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kg is being pulled by the rope on the right with a force that I'm going to call T, which stands for tension.

千克的物体受到绳子向右的一个拉力,我称它为 T,也就是拉力的意思

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