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301 bytes added, 14:13, 4 February 2019
Forces on a Scale Diagram
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 | style="height:100px; width:400px200px; text-align:left;" colspan|A [[boat]] is being pulled by two separate tug boats attached by a cable. The tension in each cable is 5000N.| style= "2height:100px; width:200px; text-align:left;"|The two tug boats and cables are replaced by [[vector]] [[force]]s drawn to a 'scale' on a from the [[Scale Diagramboat]]. This scale is 1N | style= 1cm. "height:100px; width:200px; text-align:left;"|The two [[force]]s can be added by are redrawn in a a [[Scale Diagram]] with scale is 1000N = 1cm placing the start of one [[vector]] [[force]] at the end of the other. |-| style="height:100px; width:400px; text-align:left;" colspan= "3"|This [[Scale Diagram]] shows that the two arrows add to make a length of 69.1cm4cm, which represents 6.1N9400N, in a direction of 35° down from the [[horizontal]].
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