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Limits

Well the units are right. How about the limits. When is 90 degrees, then each rope supports half of the weight which seems right. How about as ? The tensions go to infinity! That means its impossible to support any weight at all when the two strings are totally horizontal. This is actually true. It's a good thing to see if this agrees with your intuition.



Josh Deutsch
Sun Jan 21 23:46:46 PST 1996