Magnetic force on a triangular current loop

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This is a question I got wrong on a test and would like to see if I can get someone to show me how to do it properly. Snapped a pic . See below please. Thanks.
 
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  • Handwritten work on a homework sheet: a right triangle with corners a, b and c, the hypotenuse ab labelled 1.0m, legs 0.87m and 0.5m, and an arrow for B pointing up at the left corner a.
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  • Handwritten worked solution on a printed physics problem about a triangular current loop in a uniform magnetic field, with a right-triangle diagram labelled a, b, c and sides 0.87 m, 0.5 m and 1.0 m, with handwritten force and torque calculations, some crossed out.
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You've written ##\sin(\phi )=1## at the top. And that is true for the ac segment. But is it true for the other two segments?
 
So would the force on the bc segment be zero since the sin(pi or 2pi) would be zero