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I would advise 'asking' rather than 'telling'!rudransh verma said:No i am telling @haruspex to give diagram like you did.
There is no difference, 'is equal to' means having the same value.rudransh verma said:By the way can you tell me when we write something like ##T=F_{MR}## then are we saying ##T## is equal to ##F_{MR}## or the value of ##T## is ##F_{MR}##
But remember, different vectors can have the same magnitude but the vectors will be unequal if their directions are different.
##\vec T## is the tension acting upwards on the rope (where it is hed by the monkey).
##\vec F_{MR}## is the frictional force acting downward on the rope.
The rope is in equilibrium. To be rigorous we should write:
##\vec T+ \vec {F_{MR}}## = 0
which gives
##\vec T = -\vec {F_{MR}}##
Less rigorously we could write this as:
##T = -F_{MR}##
In terms of magnitudes we can write:
##|T| = |F_{MR}|##
If we are using '##T##' and '##F_{MR}##' to represent magnitudes, we should state this to avoid confusion/ambiguity. Then we can write:
##T - F_{MR}=0## which gives
##T = F_{MR}##.
We could also use the unit vector (##\hat k##) but this might be a bit over-the-top for this type of problem.