The question asks to describe in terms of physics how basketball players can jump straight up into the air. I also have to show free body diagrams of the forces on the ground and on the player.
The basketball player has gravity and normal forces acting on him and I am assuming that the rest...
The question states:
How much force does an 81.0 kg astronaut exert on his chair while sitting at rest on the launch pad?
the answer that I got was 794 N
using...
W=m*g and
Fnet=w+fchair=0
But I cannot seem to get the right answer for this second question:
How much force does...