What is the resultant if 25 pound weights are pulling at right angles

Question

What is the resultant if 25 pound weights are pulling at right angles

Answer 1

Pretty easy one.  Any weight being pulled at righ angles, this value only applies untill the object moves.

At right angles the "strings" are the base legs of a 45,45,90 triangle

the Hypotinuse follows Pathagorean Theorem.

The value of the base legs are 25.

The resultant C=the square root of 25 squared plus 25 squared.

So C=square root of 625 plus 625.

The square root of 1350 is 35.36.

hope this helps.

The examples of the first two to answer gave your the shortcut of multiplying the values of base leg times the square root of 2, which is 1.41something.

Answer 2

50*√2 = 70 lb

edit, misread, should be 25*√2 = 35 lb

Answer 3

25√2 lbf ~ 35 lbf. The direction makes a 45 degree angle with each of the weights.

I assure you that my answer is correct, and that the preceding answerer, while smarter than me, wasn't thinking and made a mistake.

Edit: He corrected himself. And why did I receive a thumbs-down?