Homework Help: Mechanics & hydromechanics

Posted by joe on Monday, January 14, 2013 at 5:47am.

A block of wood is pulled along a Horizontal table by a force of 33 N inclined at 30 degrees above the Horizontal.Find the vertical and horizontal components of the force.

Mechanics - drwls, Monday, January 14, 2013 at 7:37am
Horizontal component: 33 cos30 = 28.58 N
Vertical component: 33 sin 30 = 16.50 N

This comes from the basic definition of a vector component.

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