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hmm asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 9 years ago

Help with this physics problem please?

A car is connected to a tree by a length of rope tied tightly. A 115 pound woman steps in the middle of the rope causing it to deflect by 15 degrees.

How much force does the woman apply to the rope?

A) 115 lbs

B) 345 lbs

C)645 lbs

D) 222 lbs

What is the sum of the Xs?

A) 0

B) 0.966

C) 1.932

D) equal

What is the sum of the Ys?

A) 0

B) .966

C) 1.932

D) equal

What is the force applied to the car?

A) 115 lbs

B) 345 lbs

C) 645 lbs

D) 222 lbs

What is the force applied to the tree?

A) 115lbs

B) 345 lbs

C) 645 lbs

D) 222 lbs

Thank you SOOO much!

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    It's hard to understand this stuff without drawing a picture. Draw a picture of a tree and a car and a rope, woman in the middle, rope deflected by 15 degrees.

    Now we hope it''s obvious that if the woman weighs 115 pounds then the rope has to apply an upward force of 115 pounds. Next we remember Chief SohCahToa:

    Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse

    Cosine = Adjacent/Hypotenuse

    Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent

    So the force in the rope is a vector corresponding to the hypotenuse of the triangle and the upward force of 115 lbs involves the sine of the angle. Everything after that is just simple arithmetic.

    Get a ruler in your hands. Measure things until you start to understand how a ruler works. Measure some stuff and figure out where the center is. Say you measure a book and it's 7/8" thick. You look at your ruler and see that every eighth is divided into two sixteenths, so obviously half of 7/8" is going to be 7/16". If you write that out you have 1/2 x 7/8 = 7/16. And you notice that 1/2 is divided into 2/4 and then into 4/8 and so on, so you can convert anything to anything by multiplying all the numbers on top and then all the numbers on bottom.

    Other rulers are divided into 10 and 100 parts. But an inch is still and inch, so anything on one ruler can be translated to the other ruler. A half inch on one ruler is 5/10 or 50/100 on the other. An eighth inch is just 12.5 marks when you have 100 marks per inch. A metric ruler divides an inch into 25.4 parts, so a half inch would be 12.7 of those parts. Pretty simple, isn't it? Practice this a bit and people will think you went to wizard school.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    I need to know what type of tree...what type of rope...what type car....

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