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Solve the equations

Now lets deal with the x direction tex2html_wrap_inline707 points in the y direction so we don't need to worry about it. So we have tex2html_wrap_inline709 . expressing this using eqs. 1.12 and 1.13 we have tex2html_wrap_inline711 or tex2html_wrap_inline713 . That makes sense. The tension in the two strings are the same because the angles are the same. It would seem bizarre if this was not true.

Now the y direction. We have to include all the tensions, tex2html_wrap_inline715 . But we know tex2html_wrap_inline717 and tex2html_wrap_inline719 . So that means that tex2html_wrap_inline721 , or

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Joshua Deutsch
Wed Jan 7 17:12:17 PST 1998