prism

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Pennsylvania Railroad found it necessary, owing to land slide upon the road bed, to reduce the angle of inclination of the bank of a certain railway cut near Pittsburgh, from an original angle of 45 to a new angle 30.the bank as it originally stood was 200 ft long and had a slant length of 60 ft. find the amount of the earth removed, if the top level of the bank remained unchanged..?
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mechanice

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The block of weight W is hang from a pin at A . The bars AB and AC are pinned to the support at B and C. The areas are
800mm^2 for AB and 400mm^2 for AC . Neglecting the weigth of the bars determine the maximum safe value of W if the
Stress in AB is limited to 110Mpa and that in AC to 120Mpa