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A crane is used to pick up a 50-m-long steel beam to place in a building. The beam is uniform, but the crane cable is placed 2 m off the center of the beam. How much vertical force must be placed on the guide rope to keep the beam level? The beam has a mass of 5 kg/m, and the guide rope is placed on the end of the shorter side of the beam.

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A crane is used to pick up a 50-m-long steel beam to place in a building. The beam is uniform, but the crane cable is placed 2 m off the center of the beam. How much vertical force must be placed on the guide rope to keep the beam level? The beam has a mass of 5 kg/m, and the guide rope is placed on the end of the shorter side of the beam.






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