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How do you solve for Tension?!?
Can somebody please explain how to solve for tension?
Ball B is 5kg and held to the ceiling by 2 cables. solve for the tension in each cable.
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The two cables go straight up and down connecting the ball and the ceilings and the cables are of equal length.
Ball B's 5kg is its mass not weight. (If that makes a difference)
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
^ ^
Ft | | Ft
BBB
Fw
There's a free body diagram for you, I'm not sure how badly Yahoo'll butcher it, but. You've got your weight vector pointing down and your two tension vectors pointing up.
Fw = 2Ft
The weight vector is equal to mass times gravity as you should know, from there you should do the math yourself. GL. ^^
Source(s): I'm in AP Physics C.
