Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Ch4_3 #3

This question is a simpler version of what is done in Ch4 Sheet 32, but the basic principle is the same: for the red dot on Sheet 32 not to move the 3 forces have to add up to zero net force. Ditto for the 3 forces in the question here.
The tensions are active as shown below:

Add the force vector components with their appropriate sign (!) to yield a net x-component = 0 and net y-component = 0 (see Ch 3 Sheet 6 extended to 3 vectors).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

can anyone tell me how to approach this problem?? how am i supposed to get the angles??

Anonymous said...

forget it i solved it lol