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Qualification => Subject Doubts => GCE AS & A2 Level => Math => Topic started by: halosh92 on February 26, 2010, 11:38:21 am

Title: mechanics doubt
Post by: halosh92 on February 26, 2010, 11:38:21 am

An electric light mass mkg in a workshop is held over a particular place by two strings attached to the light bulb holder.
this is modelled by a particle suspended by two straight strings inclined at angles 60 and 65 above the horizontal.
find the tension in the strings.
where m = 0.5

Title: Re: mechanics doubt
Post by: nid404 on February 26, 2010, 11:43:35 am

T1cos60=T2cos65

T1sin60+T2sin65=0.5g

solve simultaneously to get T1 and T2