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    • 22.3: Forces Not Derived From a Potential Energy
      https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Gettysburg_College/Gettysburg_College_Physics_for_Physics_Majors/22%3A_N8)_Forces_Energy_and_Work/22.03%3A_Forces_Not_Derived_From_a_Potential_Energy
      The price we pay for this simplification (and it is a simplification) is that we are left without an independent way to determine the value of the tension in any specific case; we just have to infer i...The price we pay for this simplification (and it is a simplification) is that we are left without an independent way to determine the value of the tension in any specific case; we just have to infer it from the acceleration of the object on which it acts (since it is a reaction force, it can assume any value as required to adjust to any circumstance—up to the point where the rope snaps, anyway).
    • 21.3: Forces Not Derived From a Potential Energy
      https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Merrimack_College/Conservation_Laws_Newton's_Laws_and_Kinematics_version_2.0/21%3A_N8)_Forces_Energy_and_Work/21.03%3A_Forces_Not_Derived_From_a_Potential_Energy
      The price we pay for this simplification (and it is a simplification) is that we are left without an independent way to determine the value of the tension in any specific case; we just have to infer i...The price we pay for this simplification (and it is a simplification) is that we are left without an independent way to determine the value of the tension in any specific case; we just have to infer it from the acceleration of the object on which it acts (since it is a reaction force, it can assume any value as required to adjust to any circumstance—up to the point where the rope snaps, anyway).

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