In an emergency situation, a person with a broken forearm ties a strap from his hand to clip on his shoulder as in the figure below. His 1.60-kg forearm remains in a horizontal position and the strap makes an angle of ? = 47.0° with the horizontal. Assume the forearm is uniform, has a length of ℓ = 0.332 m, assume the biceps muscle is relaxed, and ignore the mass and length of the hand. A person with a broken left fore

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In an emergency situation, a person with a broken forearm ties a strap from his hand to clip on his shoulder as in the figure below. His 1.60-kg forearm remains in a horizontal position and the strap makes an angle of ? = 47.0° with the horizontal. Assume the forearm is uniform, has a length of ℓ = 0.332 m, assume the biceps muscle is relaxed, and ignore the mass and length of the hand.

A person with a broken left forearm faces out of the page. His left forearm is approximately horizontal, and a strap extends from a clip on his right shoulder to a position on his left arm that is a distance ℓ from the elbow. The strap is at an angle ? above the forearm. A force vector R acts up and to the right on the left forearm at a location just left of the elbow.
(a) Find the tension in the strap.  N

(b) Find the components of the reaction force exerted by the humerus on the forearm. (Assume the positive x-direction is to the right and the positive y-direction is upward.)
Rx =  N
Ry= N
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