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Well maybe that's it then... That diagram was supplied with the problem... so perhaps that is the correct answer. I noticed that a version of this same problem that asked the student to solve for T with slightly different numbers appears elsewhere on the internet, so possibly my professor...

Here is the diagram. Here is the diagram. =) URL: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v22/spacezombee/legtorque.jpg Thanks for the help!

Homework Statement The large quadricep muscles in the upper leg terminate at the lower end in a tendon attached to the upper end of the tibia. The forces on the lower leg are defined as: T is the tension in the tendon, w is the force of gravity acting on the lower leg, and F is the...