I'll reformat my calculations after this, and I did draw a diagram but I don't have anything to take a picture with at the moment.
I did not know about the pistons as they aren't mentioned anywhere in the problem, but I think I may have only solved for half of the tension. I just wasn't sure if...
Homework Statement
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Keep in mind this is a Top Gun-themed homework assignment.
Cougar comes in for a shaky landing. His 20422 kg airplane traveling at 85 m/s strikes the deck at 3.5 degrees below the horizontal. Cougar's plane snags the landing cable stretched across the deck. The landing...