You are part of a team to help design the atrium of a new building. Your...

 

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You are part of a team to help design the atrium of a new building. Your boss, the manager of the project, wants to suspend a 20-lb sculpture high over the room by hanging it from the ceiling using thin, clear fishing line (string) so that it will be difficult to see how the sculpture is held up. The only place to fasten the fishing line is a wooden beam which runs around the edge of the room at the ceiling. Her initial design has one line making an angle of 20 with the ceiling, and a second line making an angle of 40 with the ceiling. She knows you took physics, so she asks you: (a) how strong the fishing line has to be in order to support the sculpture. Begin your solution by drawing a conceptual diagram depicting the scenario being described. Then draw a Force Diagram for the sculpture! (b) how strong the fishing line has to be if the sculpture is twice as heavy. (c) how strong the fishing line has to be if they reposition the sculpture so that one line makes an angle of 80 and the other makes an angle of 10. You are part of a team to help design the atrium of a new building. Your boss, the manager of the project, wants to suspend a 20-lb sculpture high over the room by hanging it from the ceiling using thin, clear fishing line (string) so that it will be difficult to see how the sculpture is held up. The only place to fasten the fishing line is a wooden beam which runs around the edge of the room at the ceiling. Her initial design has one line making an angle of 20 with the ceiling, and a second line making an angle of 40 with the ceiling. She knows you took physics, so she asks you: (a) how strong the fishing line has to be in order to support the sculpture. Begin your solution by drawing a conceptual diagram depicting the scenario being described. Then draw a Force Diagram for the sculpture! (b) how strong the fishing line has to be if the sculpture is twice as heavy. (c) how strong the fishing line has to be if they reposition the sculpture so that one line makes an angle of 80 and the other makes an angle of 10.

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The problem youve presented requires an understanding of the equilibrium of forces When an object is suspended by two or more cables or lines the tens... View the full answer