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Textbook Solutions for Engineering Mechanics: Statics

Chapter 3 Problem 3-40

Question

The 200-lb uniform container is suspended by means of a 6-ft-long cable, which is attached to the sides of the tank and passes over the small pulley located at O. If the cable can be attached at either points A and B, or C and D, determine which attachment produces the least amount of tension in the cable. What is this tension?

Solution

Step 1 of 4

Draw free-body diagrams for the container and the pulley. Because the pulley is assumed to be frictionless, the tension is the same everywhere in the cable.

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Title Engineering Mechanics: Statics 14 
Author Russell C. Hibbeler
ISBN 9780133918922

Solved: The 200-lb uniform container is suspended by means

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