Posted by Kindell on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 12:21am.
The weight force is directed down.
the component of weight directed down the slope is the weight times the cosine of the angle between straight down and the direction parallel to the slope. That angle is (90-35) or 55 degrees
So we have 215 cos 55 = 215 sin 35
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