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Bird Justice...

     Peter Pigeon is pointing his pearl-handled pistol at our poor friend Buster, who isn't about to make one false move! Buster wanted to feed the birds but got a bad box of birdseed. Pete Pigeon says, "you made the mess, you clean it up!" 

     Buster, always thinking physics, is pushing on the broom handle, which makes an angle of 40 degrees with the horizontal, with a force of 100 Newtons. What are the vertical and horizontal components of this force?

Buster sweeping birds
 

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