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Homework Statement A man polishes the insided and outside of a hubcap that is a section of a sphere. When he looks into one side of the hubcap, he sees an image of his face 30cm behind the hubcap. He then turns the hubcap over and sees another image of his face 10 cm behind the...

would you use F=ma and then find the diffrence and get a "new" acceleration for gravity which would be greater?

a 71 kg man is standing in an elevator on a scale. the elevator is traveling up with an acceleration of 3 m/s^2. what does the scale read the weight of the man as? thanks guys!

is the answer 15.625 Kg?

Homework Statement This is the question straight from my worksheet... Tarzan tries to cross a river by swinging a vine that is 10.0 m long. His speed at the bottom of the swing is 8.0 m/s. Tarzan does not know that the vine has a breaking strength of 1.0 X 10^3 N. What is the largest mass...