Question

The following diagram shows a person exerting a
300.-newton force on the handle of a shovel that
makes an angle of 60. with the horizontal ground.

Determine the magnitude of the component of the
force perpendicular to the ground.

Answer 1

Answer:

260 Newtons

Explanation:

Okay, so what you have to do is know what the question is asking. It wants to know the force perpendicular to the ground. We know perpendicular makes a right angle, so we use the diagram to make it into a right triangle with a degree of 60, and hypotunese of 300 newtons. Now, we use basic trigonometry, we place x on the horizontal side since it perpendicular to the ground. We know it´s sin because x is opposite to 300 which is the hyp.

Sin= opp/hyp

x/300

sin(60)= x/300

300*sin(60)= 259.8, which rounds to

260 Newtons

There is your answer :D. Happy to help.