Q.

A body of weight 200 N is suspended from a tree branch through a chain of mass 10 kg. The branch pulls the chain by a force equal to (if g = 10 m/s2)     [2024]

1 300 N  
2 150 N  
3 100 N  
4 200 N  

Ans.

(1)

Chain block system is in equilibrium, so T = 200 + 100 = 300 N.