Recent content by Obediah2

Thanks everyone - those equations are perfect. I was getting caught up for some reason on the feeling that I couldn't calculate the tension using only the y-direction ...I overlooked that using the angle automatically includes the effects of the horizontal portion. Interestingly enough, a...

This is the first time I've ever been to this forum, so I'm hoping this is an appropriate place to post this. It's been a good amount of time since my college level physics courses and this rock climbing phenomenon has me stumped. There is a rock climbing anchor arrangement called the...