CH Wong's answer to Vin's Junior College 1 H1 Maths Singapore question.

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Can’t really see if the angle between the plate and member B is 40 deg. In the workings, I assumed it is 40 deg. But if it is not, you can simply use the same concept to solve for theta and F_R.
Vin
Vin
4 years ago
Hi thanks for the ans anyway may i knw whats this method call and can we use the component method to solve this?
CH Wong
CH Wong
4 years ago
Hello Vin, we can sum two vectors by using the tip to tail method, which is what I did here to form a parallelogram.

Yes, you can also resolve F_A and F_B to their respective x-components. The sum of the two x-components will be F_R.