I think I may have gotten it.
You need to use trig to make a triangle with g and Fa as sides.
While I can't find the exact force, I can find the minimum required to keep it stationary. Its what the book is looking for, but in the real world, how could I find the exact force with what little I have?
Do you mean to add the vectors?
Or I need to account for a (-) Force down the incline so F a has acceleration... but that would still amount to Fnet and would in turn need a.
Well I'm really getting nowhere awful fast.
So then there's no relevant relation between mg and Fn.
Because i was hoping cos21 may subtract from mg to acquire Fn.
Am I going about this incorrectly?
By this I'm assuming that F= mg,
but according to my notes, as far as I can gather, F normal must equal Fa due to gravity, but your saying it's independent.
So I have no form of engineering education, but I had a hypothesis on an analog mechanical clock being able to account for the effect of gravity on time with a form of super-sensitive weight and scale system to control speed.
Has this been done?
Either way, any thoughts on the matter?
Well I know that n and g (although now that I think about it it might be g and θ) combine to find the minimal force you need to overcome gravity and inversely shows Fa, but I don't think I know how that'd work.