A boy with a mass of 34 kg hangs straight down from the monkey bars with two arms. What is the tension in each arm (in Newtons)?

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A boy with a mass of 34 kg hangs straight down from the monkey bars with two arms. What is the tension in each arm (in Newtons)?

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Answer 1 · 2015-10-01T17:26:57

I found $166.5 N$ $166.5N$

Explanation:

Considering the weight of the boy:
$W = m g = 34 \cdot 9.8 = 333 N$ $W=mg=34*9.8=333N$ concentrated primarly in the body (leaving the weight of his arms almost negiglible) and treating the arms as two kind of ropes, we have:
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Getting:
$2T'=W=333N$
$T'=333/2=166.5N$

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