SOLUTION: A guy wire attached to a high tower needs to be replaced. The contractor does not know the height of the tower or the length of the wire. Find a method to measure the length of the
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Question 733911: A guy wire attached to a high tower needs to be replaced. The contractor does not know the height of the tower or the length of the wire. Find a method to measure the length of the wire indirectly.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A guy wire attached to a high tower needs to be replaced.
The contractor does not know the height of the tower or the length of the wire.
Find a method to measure the length of the wire indirectly.
:
measure the distance from the base of the tower, to the guy tie point
measure the angle between the ground, and the top of the tower at the tie point.
:
Use the cosine of the angle, which is:
the side adjacent (dist from tie point to tower)
over
the hypotenuse (length of the guy wire)
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