Consider a teeter-totter that is made out of pine, shown below. A pineapple sits on one side of the teeter-totter, a distance 1.09 m from the pivot point, while an apple (non-pine) sits on the other side, a distance of 2.63 m from the pivot. If the pineapple has a mass 132 g, what must the mass of the apple be in order to balance the teeter-totter (i.e. to maintain rotational equilibrium)?

Consider a teeter-totter that is made out of pine, shown below. A pineapple sits on one side of the teeter-totter, a distance 1.09 m from the pivot point, while an apple (non-pine) sits on the other side, a distance of 2.63 m from the pivot. If the pineapple has a mass 132 g, what must the mass of the apple be in order to balance the teeter-totter (i.e. to maintain rotational equilibrium)?

College Physics

11th Edition

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

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