When a sail is hoisted, the rope or halyard passes over a pulley and down the mast, where it is often wrapped around a cleat at the bottom. to effect the final tightening the halyard is grasped at the middle, if possible, and pulled away from the mast, after which the slack so gained is taken up at the cleat. If the halyard is 20 m from pulley to cleat and is pulled at the middle, so that it is 1.0 m out from the mast, with a force of 20 N, what is the tension in the halyard?

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When a sail is hoisted, the rope or halyard passes over a pulley and down the mast, where it is often wrapped around a cleat at the bottom. to effect the final tightening the halyard is grasped at the middle, if possible, and pulled away from the mast, after which the slack so gained is taken up at the cleat. If the halyard is 20 m from pulley to cleat and is pulled at the middle, so that it is 1.0 m out from the mast, with a force of 20 N, what is the tension in the halyard?
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