Asked by Josue

Consider the 37 N weight held by two cables
shown below. The left-hand cable is horizontal.

a) What is the tension in the cable slanted
at an angle of 46◦?
Answer in units of N.

b) What is the tension in the horizontal cable?
Answer in units of N.

Answers

Answered by bobpursley
It matters where the 46 deg angle is.
Start with your basic laws:
TensionLeft*cosangleLeftToHorizontal=TensionRight*cosAngleRightToHoriz.
and
TensionL*sinAngleLeft+TensionR*sinAngleRight=weight
in all cases angles are measured to the horizontal.
solve for TensionL and TensionR
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