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Chapter 2.1, Problem 2.15P
The barge B is pulled by two tugboats A and C. At a given instant, the tension in cable AB is 4500 lb and the tension in cable BC is 2000 lb. Determine by trigonometry the magnitude and direction of the resultant of the two forces applied at B at that instant.
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