Question

A crow sits on a clothesline midway between two poles as shown. Each end of the rope makes an angle of θ = 16° below the horizontal where it connects to the pole. If the combined weight of the crow and the rope is 8.4 N, what is the tension in the rope?

Answer 1

assuming each side holds half the weight..

I see a triangle where sinTheta=(1/2weight)/Tension


sinTheta=(4.2N)/Tension

solve for Tension.