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Graduated College over thirty years ago. In physics, I recall a a question where one is required to weigh an object beyond the capacity of the scale. The answer involved resting one edge of the object on scale and the other on a separate support higher than the scale such that the object created and angle from the perpendicular . I believe that the cosine of the angle from the perpendicular played in the solution. Guidance sought