A purple beam is hinged to a wall to hold up a blue sign. The beam has a mass of

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A purple beam is hinged to a wall to hold up a blue sign. The beam has a mass of mb = 6.4 kg and the sign has a mass of ms = 15.4 kg. The length of the beam is L = 2.82 m. The sign is attached at the very end of the beam, but the horizontal wire holding up the beam is attached 2/3 of the way to the end of the beam. The angle the wire makes with the beam is ? = 32.7.

1) What is the tension in the wire?

2) What is the net force the hinge exerts on the beam?

3)  The maximum tension the wire can have without breaking is T = 819 N. What is the maximum mass sign that can be hung from the beam?

Explanation / Answer

a)
the moments around the hinge, parallel to the beam, and normal to it, sum up to 0.
the angle of the horizontal line with the beam is 32.7, so the
angle of the forces with the beam are 90 - 32.7 = 57.3

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