That's as much as I thought.
Thanks :)
The trick now is getting the computer program to accept the answer...
Ah, well, they will meet with their TAs/professors to see if they can get some more light shed on it!
Do you know how the equation for the pivot point of the edge of the door is calculated?
It is done by using the moment of inertia of an axis thru the center of the door plus M * R^2 where R is the perpendicular distance between the two axes. You can confirm this equation by starting with the...
Homework Statement
Hi, I'm tutoring an introductory Physics class at a Big 10 school, and we've stumbled across a problem that we can't solve. Well, I thought we could solve it, but we have to use a clumsy web program to enter our answers and we can't seem to solve this one.
The problem is ...