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Thanks for your interest and help with this problem. I can see why I could not find the solution in my first year physics text.

Thanks for your response. Expressing the problem using just symbols clarifies my error.

Thanks for your response. I had not thought about the elasticity factor. The reason that I was interested in this problem comes from being on what was called an "Adventure Ropes Course" (although you were actually walking on steel cables) and being told by the guy who got you into your harness...

Homework Statement A 100 kg man is walking on a tight cable. His safety harness has a strap that is attached to an overhead cable that will allow him to fall 1 meter before stopping him from falling any further. What is the force on the strap when it stops his fall at 1 meter. Homework...