Recent content by Nthaoe

Thanks, people in the circus world have been guying trapeze bars for a century, this wouldn't be used to create a minimal tie down. I was just surprised when I first looked into it that I couldn't find anyone who'd done the math. -just out of curiosity, it's fairly common to be taught...

-sorry if I got the prefix wrong. I'm working on calculating the forces on a trapeze bar, specifically, what tension I would need on guy wires to resists the horizontal forces on a swinging trapeze. If I could get the horizontal force generated by the the trapeze/pendulum I can do the rest...