A balanced lever has two weights on it, the first with mass 7 kg 7kg and the second with mass 25 kg25kg. If the first weight is 6 m6m from the fulcrum, how far is the second weight from the fulcrum?
1 Answer
Dec 24, 2015
Explanation:
We may use the second condition for static equilibrium to solve this problem, that is, that the resultant torque of the system must be zero.
ie,
So in this case,