A mountain climber practices his technique in a mountain climbing school by balancing while suspended by two ropes attached to the ceiling. As shown by the figure, the left rope makes an angle of 60 degrees with the horizontal ceiling and the right rope makes an angle of 30 degrees with the horizontal ceiling. If the right rope has tension T1=322 N, what is the weight of the mountain climber?

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A mountain climber practices his technique in a mountain climbing school by balancing while suspended by two ropes attached to the ceiling. As shown by the figure, the left rope makes an angle of 60 degrees with the horizontal ceiling and the right rope makes an angle of 30 degrees with the horizontal ceiling. If the right rope has tension T1=322 N, what is the weight of the mountain climber?
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The mountain climber makes an angle 60° with the horizontal to the left of rope and 30° with the horizontal to the right of rope.

Tension in right rope, T1 = 332 N

Here we consider, 

Tension in right rope = T1 = TR

Tension in right rope = T1 = TL

Weight of mountain climber = W

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