Question

There was a massive storm, a tree limb broke off. The limb comes to rest across a barbed wire fence at a point that is not in the middle between two fence posts. The limb exerts a downward force of 209 Newtons on the wire. The left section of the wire makes an angle of 13.6degrees relative to the horizontal and sustains a tension of 427 Newtons. Find the (a) magnitude and (b) direction (as an angle relative to horizontal) of the tension that the right section of the wire sustains.

Answer 1