Coulomb's Law and Final Angle of Dust Cobweb

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The discussion revolves around calculating the final angle that a dust cobweb makes with the vertical when influenced by an electrostatic force from another charged dust ball. The problem involves a mass of 2.0 x 10^-7 g suspended on a string, drawn towards a wall by a charge of -3.0 x 10^-6 C. The user attempts to apply Coulomb's Law and resolve the forces using trigonometric components but encounters difficulty due to having two unknowns, distance and angle. A request for a visual representation of the forces acting on the dust balls is made to clarify the problem. The thread highlights the complexities of applying physics equations in electrostatic scenarios.
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1.Homework Statement

A dust cobweb is drawn from an initial vertical position toward a nearby wall by an electrostatic force. Assume the cobweb to be like a single dust ball of mass 2.0 x 10^-7g suspended on a massless string of length 0.42 m connected a horizontal distance of 0.35 m from the wall, as shown below. The tethered dust ball is drawn to the wall by another similar dust ball of opposite charge, -q = -3.0 x 10-6C.
a)what final angle does the cobweb make to the vertical?


2. Homework Equations
Fe = (kq1q2)/d^2



where Fe is the electric force between two objects
K is Coulomb's constant (9.0 x 109 Nm2/C2)
q1 is object 1's electric charge
q2 is object 2's electric charge
d is the distance between centers of charged objects

I tried using components, so:
Ft=Fe/sinθ
And
Fg=Ftcosθ
So I substituted but I end up with two variables (d and θ) so I'm not sure what to do.

(Sorry for any typos and the horrible formatting, I'm posting this off a phone)
 
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Could you show a picture showing the dust balls and the forces to make the problem more clear, please?

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