A derrick boom is guyed by cables AC and AD. A worker is lifting a 20-kg block

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A derrick boom is guyed by cables AC and AD. A worker is lifting a 20-kg block by pulling on a rope that passes through the pulley at A. Knowing that the boom AB exerts a force at A that is directed from B to A. determine this force and the force in each of the two cables.


C-15 3m 15 m

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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