A team of house builders went to the Lowe's in Bloomfield, CT and bought bags of Fastset Self Leveling concrete mixes. They built a simple concrete wall for modern looking house, but it is very unstable and temporarily held by two blue cables as shown below. (a) A В E (b) D. (c) Knowing that the dimensions are (a) 3.5 m, (b) 1.9 m, (c) 1.7 m, (d) 1.4 m, and the tension in cable BD is 600 N. Draw a free-body diagram. Determine the moment about point O of the force exerted by the cable at B.
A team of house builders went to the Lowe's in Bloomfield, CT and bought bags of Fastset Self Leveling concrete mixes. They built a simple concrete wall for modern looking house, but it is very unstable and temporarily held by two blue cables as shown below. (a) A В E (b) D. (c) Knowing that the dimensions are (a) 3.5 m, (b) 1.9 m, (c) 1.7 m, (d) 1.4 m, and the tension in cable BD is 600 N. Draw a free-body diagram. Determine the moment about point O of the force exerted by the cable at B.
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Transcribed Image Text:A team of house builders went to the Lowe's in Bloomfield, CT and bought bags of Fastset Self Leveling concrete mixes. They built a simple concrete wall for modern
looking house, but it is very unstable and temporarily held by two blue cables as shown below.
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Knowing that the dimensions are (a) 3.5 m, (b) 1.9 m, (c) 1.7 m, (d) 1.4 m, and the tension in cable BD is 600 N.
Draw a free-body diagram.
Determine the moment about point O of the force exerted by the cable at B.
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