Thanks for the responses!
I'll try to recreate the picture to see if it helps at all. @Sammy the only values given are the masses, so it's tough to tell for sure.
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The forces are being exerted on the smaller surfaces, and...
Homework Statement
Rank in order, from largest to smallest, the magnitudes of the forces F1, F2, and F3 required for balancing the masses shown in the figure.
There are three pictures of different kinds of pistons. In the first picture, there are four pistons: three with 500 kg masses on...
Thanks for the responses everyone!
My final is next Wednesday, so I kind of agree with everyone here that my professor is going to make it really difficult to try to lower the average. I think the reason the average is this high is because it's an honors physics course, so everyone in it is...
Hi! I wasn't really sure where to put this thread, but my grade right now in my first undergraduate physics course is around a 93%, and apparently the average in the class is an 87.6%. I feel like that's an unusually high average. How do you think the professors will handle this? Do you think...
Hi! Thanks for the welcome!
I'm sorry, it is supposed to be "between the Earth-Sun line and the Mars-Sun line" instead of "between the Earth-Sun line and the Earth-Mars line".
I'm still working on it too, so let me know what you think. Maybe instead I should take 2pi - 3.34 to get the angle...
1. Homework Statement
Mars orbits the sun at a mean distance of 228 million km, in a period of 687 days. The Earth orbits at a mean distance of 149.6 million km in a period of 365.26 days. All answers should be in the range (0, 2pi)
a) suppose Earth and Mars are positioned such that Earth...