Help find the force of compression

[dani123]

Find the force of tension in the chain. Determine the force of compression in the support bar. Be sure to include a free body diagram as part of your solution.

Now the only information given is a mass=20.4 kg and the angle 22 degrees.

If anyone could help me with this question, it would be greatly appreciated! THANK YOU SO MUCH in advance!


This is what I attempted to do to find a solution:
Fgravity= mg=20.4*9.8=200N

Then to find the tension I did the following:
Tcos(90-22degrees)-200N=0
0.375*T=200N
T=534N------> this would be our vertical component

Resolving horizontally gives:
x-Tcos(22)=0
x=534N*0.927
x=495N

 

[tiny-tim]

welcome to pf!

hi dani123! welcome to pf!

(i assume the support bar is horizontal)

yes that's fine

is anything worrying you about that?​

 

[dani123]

Not anymore! haha I just wasn't feeling very confident with my answer! Thank you very much!