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Chapter 8, Problem 12P
* Lifting an engine You work in a machine shop and need to move a huge 640-kg engine up and to the left in order to slide a cart under it. You use the system shown in Figure P8.12. How hard and in what direction do you need to pull on rope 2 if the angle between rope 1 and the horizontal is
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