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Posted by Vishnu on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 11:51am.

A bag of cement of weight 370 N hangs from three wires

Two of the wires make angles è1 = 58.6° and è2 = 23.8° with the horizontal. If the system is in equilibrium, calculate the tension T1.

physics - bobpursley, Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 11:56am
You know the sum of forces is zero, in the vertical and horizontal.

In the horizontal
0=T1cos58.6 + T2cos23.8
In the vertical
370=T1sin58.6 + ....

From this, you get two equations, two unknowns.

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