Recent content by Manthegun

Dam! Thanks! Has been staring at me all along! Laid off physics and other stuff for a long time so am a bit rusty, guess that explains this. Anyhow thanks Doc Al for the help. Cheers to you. =)

I understand that change in distance is related to the change in diagonal length which inturn can be calculated through the Pythagoras theorem. <Assumption: Change in diagonal length = change in vertical length, since the rope is getting reeled over> So as such, let the diagonal length at...

Homework Statement To protect his food from hungry bears, a boy scout rasies his food pack with a rope that is thrown over a tree limb at height h above his hands. He walks away from the vertical rope with constant velocity (v boy), holding the free end of the rope in his hands. (a) Show that...