Beer Johnston asked 1 year ago
A 200-kg cylinder is hung by means of two cables AB and AC that are attached to the top of a vertical wall. A horizontal force P perpendicular
to the wall holds the cylinder in the position shown. Determine the magnitude of P and the tension in each cable.
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Sazid Ahmad answered 1 year ago
Consider the diagram shown below for the given system.
Here, TAB and TAC are the tension in the strings AB and AC respectively.
The position vector for the AB is,
The position vector for AC is,
Step 2
Tensions in the strings in the vector form can be represented as,
Step 3
From the equilibrium of forces,
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