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Question: On one side of a wheel there is 50 lbs of weight, if the wheel is released the weights would rotate with the wheel until the weights where at the bottom and stop. Let's say this wheel has a shaft in the middle of the wheel that turns as the wheel does, if you put weights on one side of the wheel, when the wheel is released the the wheel and shaft turns until the weights stop at the bottom. Ok on the shaft there is bar welded to it, a long enough bar to use for leverage as the wheel turns {like a fan blade attached to its shaft}. Now let's say we have a balance scale or a teeter totter with 15 lbs at one end. If 50 lbs of weight in rotation on a wheel is pushing down with the attached bar, could the bar push down on the other end of the teeter totter that has no weight and lift the 15 lbs of weight on the other end of the teeter totter?