A small ball of mass 0.5 kg is attached to one end of a 1.8-m-long massless rod, and the other end of the rod is hung from a pivot. When the resulting pendulum is 40◦ from the vertical, what is the magnitude of the gravitational torque calculated about the pivot

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A small ball of mass 0.5 kg is attached to one end of a 1.8-m-long massless rod, and the other end of the rod is hung from a pivot. When the resulting pendulum is 40◦ from the vertical, what is the magnitude of the
gravitational torque calculated about the pivot?

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