Attempting to find tension force with electric fields

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Homework Statement


A small conducting sphere of mass 5.0x10^-3 kg attached to a string of length 20 cm, is at rest in a uniform electric field E. There is a charge of -5.0x10^-6 coulomb on the sphere. The string makes an angle of 30° with the vertical. Calculate the tension in the string. Calculate the magnitude of the electric field.


Homework Equations


Probably have to use Fm = BIlsin° Not sure what else, though.


The Attempt at a Solution


Honestly, I have no idea where to start. We haven't really covered this in class yet, and I don't know what to Google to figure it out that way... Help, please?
 
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Okay, I think this is the right free-body diagram. I could be wrong, though. But this is the apparatus set-up we're given.
 

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