A balanced lever has two weights on it, the first with mass 3kg and the second with mass 24kg. If the first weight is 9m from the fulcrum, how far is the second weight from the fulcrum?
1 Answer
Dec 30, 2015
Explanation:
Let
Let
Since the lever is balanced so both the torques produced by
Let the mass
Let
Hence the second weight is at a distance of 1.125m from the fulcrum.