Trigonometry Practice: Solving for Force with Angles and Vectors

[Dannystu]

Homework Statement

It has been a while since I have taken pre-cal, thus I am not very good with trig. A man pushes a dolly with a force of 82 N which makes an angle of 35 degrees below the horizontal. Is the force along the x-axis F*sin(theta)? Or cos?

 

[Doc Al]

Is the force along the x-axis F*sin(theta)? Or cos?

The horizontal component would be F*cosθ.

Review: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vect.html#vec5"