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I think i am missing something fundamental here. Are you saying there is no straight-forward solution to that problem or is it that i am oversimplifying it? What if i draw the FBD in a different coordinate system without taking into account the tension. Just analysing the mass in the 2 cases...

This is how i draw the FBD for the two cases (or what i believe it is) and based on those diagrams if i calculate the torques at the black dot my results show me that the Tension produced in case 1 is smaller than the Tension produced in case 2 and based this result i thought that since the...

I have these two cases of a mass hanging from beams. The question is in which of the two cases will the mass travel the most distance in the vertical direction assuming we are in the elastic region. All i can think of is to calculate the tension for each of the two cases, Whichever case has...