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A 100-N weight is hung at the middle of a 4-m long horizontal clothesline. If the middle of the clothesline sags by 1 m, what is the tension on each segment of the clothesline?

Glencoe Physics: Principles and Problems, Student Edition

1st Edition

ISBN:9780078807213

Author:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Publisher:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Chapter4: Forces In One Dimension

Section4.3: Newton's Third Law

Problem 37SSC

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