Question: Workmen are trying to free an SUV stuck in the mud. To extricate the vehicle, they use three horizontal ropes, producing the force vectors shown

Workmen are trying to free an SUV stuck in the mud. To extricate the vehicle, they use three horizontal ropes, producing the force vectors shown in Fig. E4.2.

(a) Find the x- and y-components of each of the three pulls.

(b) Use the components to find the magnitude and direction of the resultant of the three pulls.

Figure E4.2: 

788 N 32 985 N 31° х 530 411 N

788 N 32 985 N 31 530 411 N

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