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1. In the figure a uniform beam of length is hanging from a point a distance to the right of its center. The beam weighs and makes an angle of with the vertical. At the right-hand end of the beam a concrete block weighing is hung; an unknown weight hangs at the other end. If the system is in equilibrium, what is ? You can ignore the thickness of the beam.
2. If the beam makes, instead, an angle of with the vertical, what is ?

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