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Re: Help on calc 3 problem would be incredibly appreciated...
Joe,
Do you know what form the expected answer should take? If it's simply looking for the ratio of the magnitude of OA to the projection, then that's pretty easy and Jack's advice applies.
If they're expecting you to calculate an actual load on OA, then that's a little trickier. In that case it turns into a system of 3 equations. On that track, the idea is that the loads on OA, OB, and OC add up to your load, but in the opposite direction. So FOA + FOB + FOC = (0,0,1000). The trick there is, again, to nomalize (turn into a unit vector) OA, OB, OC. Then you can multiply those unit vectors by a magnitude and end up with a system of 3 equations.
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