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This was the final bonus question on my first university and I made a serious attempt at it. I know this isn't technically a homework question, so I will understand if it goes unanswered, by founding out if I did this correctly would go a long way to alleviating some of my final exam anxieties...

A 6.0kg box is on a frictionless 35° slope and is connected via a massless string over a massless, frictionless pulley to a hanging 2.0kg weight. What is the tension in the string if the 6.0kg box is held in place, so that it cannot move? m1= 6.0kg m2= 2.0kg θ=35° So, for Box 1 to be...