A sailor is being rescued using a boatswain's chair that is suspended from a pulley that can

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A sailor is being rescued using a boatswain's chair that is suspended from a pulley that can roll freely on the support cable ACB and is pulled at a constant speed by cable CD. Knowing that α = 25° and β = 15° and that the tension in cable CD is 20 lb, determine

(a) The combined weight of the boatswain's chair and the sailor,

(b) The tension in the support cable ACB.

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073398242

11th edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston Jr., David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell, Brian Self

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