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r-ruslan [8.4K]
3 years ago
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Jack and Jill have made up since the previous HW assignment, and are now playing on a 10 meter seesaw. Jill is sitting on one en

d of the seesaw, while Jack is some distance (d) from the fulcrum on the other side. If Jack and Jill have masses of 100 kg and 60 kg, respectively, where should Jack sit in order to balance the seesaw?
Physics
1 answer:
Airida [17]3 years ago
6 0

Answer: 3 m.

Explanation:

Neglecting the mass of the seesaw, in order the seesaw to be balanced, the sum of the torques created by  gravity acting on both children  must be 0.

As we are asked to locate Jack at some distance from the fulcrum, we can take torques regarding the fulcrum, which is located at just in the middle of the length of the seesaw.

If we choose the counterclockwise direction as positive, we can write the torque equation as follows (assuming that Jill sits at the left end of the seesaw):

mJill* 5m -mJack* d = 0

60 kg*5 m -100 kg* d =0

Solving for d:

d = 3 m.

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