Objects want to continue doing what they’re doing because they are “lazy.” This is called law of inertia.
Newton's first law of motion states that an object at rest or uniform motion in a straight line will continue in that state unless it is being acted upon by an external force. This law is also called the law of inertia because it depends on mass.
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Objects want to continue doing what they’re doing because they are “lazy.” This is called law of inertia.
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Answer:
1. Can change the state of an object(rest to motion/ motion to rest)
2. May change the speed of an object if it is already moving.
3. May change the direction of motion of an object.
Explanation: A force acting on an object causes the object to change its shape or size, to start moving, to stop moving, to accelerate or decelerate.
In several of the questions you've posted during the past day, we've already said that a wave with larger amplitude carries more energy. That idea is easy to apply to this question.
The weight of the meterstick is:

and this weight is applied at the center of mass of the meterstick, so at x=0.50 m, therefore at a distance

from the pivot.
The torque generated by the weight of the meterstick around the pivot is:

To keep the system in equilibrium, the mass of 0.50 kg must generate an equal torque with opposite direction of rotation, so it must be located at a distance d2 somewhere between x=0 and x=0.40 m. The magnitude of the torque should be the same, 0.20 Nm, and so we have:

from which we find the value of d2:

So, the mass should be put at x=-0.04 m from the pivot, therefore at the x=36 cm mark.