) A friend of yours complains that he often has lower back pain. One day while he picks up a package, you notice he bends at his

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) A friend of yours complains that he often has lower back pain. One day while he picks up a package, you notice he bends at his

hips rather than keeping his back straight and bending his knees. Assume he pivots at the hips so that his spine is horizontal. His back muscles then exert a force at 48 cm away from the hips at 13.5 degrees above the horizontal (directed slightly up and to the left in the picture shown). The weight of his upper body is 560 N, and his center of mass is 38 cm from the hips. Draw a force diagram of the spine. What total force is exerted by the back muscle when he picks up a 10 kg package at 82 cm from the hips? Extra credit: Find the force exerted by the hips on the spine/pelvis

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