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You are part of a team to help design the atrium of a new building. Your boss, the manager of the project, wants to suspend a 24.0 kg sculpture high over the room by hanging it from the ceiling using thin, clear fishing line (string) so that it will be difficult to see how the sculpture is held up. The only place to fasten the fishing line is to a wooden beam, which runs around the edge of the room at the ceiling. She suggests attaching two lines to the sculpture to be safe. Each line would come from the opposite side of the ceiling to attach to the hanging sculpture. Her initial design has one line making an angle of 20o with the ceiling and the other line making an angle of 40o with the ceiling. She knows you took physics, so she asks you to determine the weight (in Newtons) the fishing line needs to be able to support.
To determine the weight that the fishing line needs to support, we need to use the concept of equilibrium and resolve the forces acting on the sculpture.
First, let's draw a diagram to visualize the situation described. We have a wooden beam running around the edge of the room at the ceiling, and two fishing lines attached to the sculpture from opposite sides of the ceiling. The angles at which the lines make with the ceiling are given as 20° and 40°. Let's label the angles and the forces acting on the sculpture:
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θ1 = 20°
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θ2 = 40°
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Now, let's determine the vertical and horizontal components of forces acting on the sculpture.
The weight of the sculpture acts vertically downward with a force of mg, where m is the mass (24.0 kg) and g is the acceleration due to gravity (approximately 9.8 m/s^2).
The tension in each fishing line can be resolved into horizontal and vertical components:
For the line making an angle of 20° with the ceiling:
- The horizontal component (T1x) opposes each other and cancels out.
- The vertical component (T1y) supports the weight of the sculpture.
For the line making an angle of 40° with the ceiling:
- The horizontal component (T2x) opposes each other and cancels out.
- The vertical component (T2y) supports the weight of the sculpture.
Since we have equilibrium, the vertical components of the forces must add up to balance the weight of the sculpture. Therefore, we have the following equation:
T1y + T2y = mg
Now, let's calculate the vertical components of the tension forces.
T1y = T1 * sin(θ1)
T2y = T2 * sin(θ2)
Plugging these values back into the equation, we get:
T1 * sin(θ1) + T2 * sin(θ2) = mg
Let's solve this equation for T1.
T1 = (mg - T2 * sin(θ2)) / sin(θ1)
Finally, we can substitute the given values to calculate the weight in Newtons (N) that the fishing line needs to support:
m = 24.0 kg
g ≈ 9.8 m/s^2
θ1 = 20°
θ2 = 40°
By plugging in these values, you can calculate the weight.