There is an unbalanced force on the kink. The right hand end has no y component force, the left end has a force

• There is an unbalanced force on the kink. The right hand end has no y component force, the left end has a force

• the impulse equals change in momentum:

• and now we use the small angle approximation that sin x = tan x, so

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