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The sketch below shows a painter’s scaffold in mechanical equilibrium. The person in the middle weighs 500N, and the tensions in each rope are 400N. What is the weight of the scaffold?

Glencoe Physics: Principles and Problems, Student Edition

1st Edition

ISBN:9780078807213

Author:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Publisher:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Chapter5: Displacement And Force In Two Dimensions

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 82A

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