ABOLDIUM TBOSE tutorial

The answer 43.86 is incorrect, it's an error in the SOLOMON DAUDA texted book. Here's the real working: The mistake is actually from this point, "W=R + psin@",instead of R=w+psin@. This is because the horizontal components R, is the sum of the whole compo...

I am so sorry, I was not quite correct, since t+e body is still at the horizontal surface, but being pulled, the normal reaction R=weight W - the vertical components wsin@. And that's what Solomon dauda textbook showed but in this form. 90=R+wsin@. I was...