a thin horizontal bar AB of negligible weight and length L is hinged to a vertical wall at A and supported at B by a thin wire BC that makes an angle u with the horizontal. A block of weight W can be moved anywhere along the bar; its position is defined by the distance x from the wall to its center of mass. As a function of x, find (a) the tension in the wire, and the (b) horizontal and (c) vertical components of the force on the bar from the hinge at A.

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a thin horizontal bar AB of negligible weight
and length L is hinged to a vertical wall at A and supported at B
by a thin wire BC that makes an angle u with the horizontal. A
block of weight W can be moved anywhere along the bar; its position
is defined by the distance x from the wall to its center of
mass. As a function of x, find (a) the tension in the wire, and the
(b) horizontal and (c) vertical components of the force on the bar
from the hinge at A.

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