Recent content by sweetheart901

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...

Thank you! I guess that was my fault for making a silly error >.<

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...