Question: My car is stuck in the mud, so I attach a rope to the bumper. I can pull with a force FA = 500. N,

 My car is stuck in the mud, so I attach a
rope to the bumper. I can pull with a force FA =

My car is stuck in the mud, so I attach a rope to the bumper. I can pull with a force FA = 500. N, but the car won't budge. I decide that I can apply enough force to the car to pull it out by attaching the other end of the rope to the tree nearest it, and pulling the center of the rope in the direction perpendicular to the rope with the same force as I did before. The car easily comes out of the mud. Why? Draw a free-body diagram (FBD) and calculate the force of tension in the rope that is applied to the car for a small angle of 0=2.0 degrees between the original rope position and the pulled rope position. Tree trunk T

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