A flower pot with a mass of 6.8kg is hanging by 4 wires that make an angle of 53° from the horizontal. If the pot with 7 wires were instead located on Jupiter where the acceleration due to gravity is -23.1m/s², what would the tension in each wire be?

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Answer 1 · 2015-11-08T14:33:37

#28.1"N"#

I'll assume the angle is the same.

The vertical component of the total tension is balanced by the weight.

#:.7Tsin(53)=mg#

#:.T=(6.8xx23.1)/(7xx0.798)#

#T=28.1"N"#