Homework Statement
A person's center of mass is easily found by having the person lie on a reaction board. A horizontal, 3.0-m-long, 6.6kg reaction board is supported only at the ends, with one end resting on a scale and the other on a pivot. A 63kg woman lies on the reaction board with her...
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In an amusement park ride called The Roundup, passengers stand inside a 19.0m -diameter rotating ring. After the ring has acquired sufficient speed, it tilts into a vertical plane, as shown in the figure
1. Suppose the ring rotates once every 5.50s . If a rider's mass is...
Homework Statement
In the figure professional wrestler Randy “Macho Man” Savage is suspending a 10 kg mass with a rope between his two hands. Is the strongest member of your team, or even the Macho Man, strong enough to keep a heavy mass stationary and the rope perfectly horizontal? Explain...