There are two vertical poles, one of height 100 feet and the other 70 feet, positioned a horizontal distance of 80 feet apart on level ground. A rope of length 100 feet connects the tops of the two poles. A weight, placed on the rope so that it can slide freely along it, is allowed to come to rest.
Find the horizontal distance of the weight from the 100 feet pole and the vertical distance from the ground.
First - yes - the correct answer is h=60, v=55. In my work I made
an error. (Well, two!) In my first post, while I got the right simultaneous equations for h and v, I came to the wrong solution due to an iterative computer algorithm bug. Also, I corrected another error in my second "methods" post: to get the total tension T right.
But the approach worked.
Edited on June 26, 2019, 12:48 pm
correction...
