What Is the Angle Between the Pendulum and the Vertical?

[Fusilli_Jerry89]

Homework Statement

A pendulum bob of mass 24.5 N is pulled aside by a horizontal rope. If the tension in the rope is 3.50 N, what's the angle between the pendulum and the vertical?

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The Attempt at a Solution

tan^-1(3.50/24.5) = 8.13 degrees?

 

[redribbbon]

draw a free-body diagram

the rope pulling from the left, the weight down, and Tension at an angle to the upper right

 

[Fusilli_Jerry89]

it duznt seem like it is necessary

 

[Fusilli_Jerry89]

And it means the tension is the horizontal rope