Recent content by chrisl

Thank you very much for the help you provided. My mom and I figured it out about 20 minutes ago, so the lab is allmost complete now. Without your original help, I would have been stuck until your last post. Thank you very much. Chris

What is the "pivot"? Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. I understand what you are saying, but I am still lost on what equation I need to use to find the unknown mass.

So is there anybody out there that can give me the formula for this? I am quickly running out of time, and would really appreciate it if somebody could help me out further. Thanks

Ok. The mass of the meter stick is 140g. The cg of meter stick is 50cm. cg of unknown mass and meter stick for my first object is 23.9. So that makes the distance from the CG of meter stick to the distane from the cg of the unknown mass object to the cg of the meter stick 27.1. Can somebody...

Hello, I am new here but am completley stuck on a lab that I need done for tommorow. I am doing a torque lab, with a meter stick being used as a scale and I know the mass of it. You can basically think of the meter stick as a seesaw with only one person on one end. I have attached weights...