Homework Help: physics

Posted by tammy on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:43am.

a sailor pulls a boat along a dock by a rope held at an angle of 55.5 with the horizontal. How much work is done if the sailor exerts a force of 345 N on the rope and pulls the boat 23.8 m?

physics - bobpursley, Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:53am
work= force*distance*cosAngle
The problem here is you gave the angle with respect to the horizontal. In what direction did the boat move?

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