Recent content by mechaadv43

oh, i thought it was considerd 'energy' only because i brought the weight to a level standpoint. Anyway, using no weight at all was also simpler.just took a broom stick and put all but 3 inches over a pivot that was high off the floor, then pushed down on the short 3 inch side only about 2...

ha, i finally get it. doing it the hard way helped. if the weight is say 6 feet from the fulcrum and my end only has to be pushed down 4 inches to make it level, then all the energy needed for the weight to go up about a foot and a half is = to the energy i need to push my end down only 4...

i meant don't understand the formulas.

uh, I'm so confused still. sorry to be a burden with my apparent stupidity (unless what I'm trying to 'get' isn't all that simple.i might take an iq test when i figure this out to hopefully find I'm not as dumb as i feel!) Formulas don't help me much, but I understand the concepts now. It's...

TY all, I'm not thinking clearly lately. Simply, the weight sets on the fulcrum and i just have to move my proportion. the wight is also tranfered into the lever, as example, if i push a seasaw that's weighted on one side: if i push it from the end, there's more weight stored in the lever as...

I'm pretty sure zoobyshoe's post made it click for me. i need to digest the concept a little more to be certain for myself, but that's all i was wondering. thanks for drawing that all out instead of just like MS paint.