APPLICATIONS
Law of the Lever The figure shows a lever system, similar to a seesaw that you might find in a children’s playground. For the system to balance, the product of the weight and its distance from the fulcrum must be the same in the same on each side; that is,
This equation is called the law of the lever and was the first discovered by Archimedes (see page 831).
A woman and her son are playing on the seesaw. The boy is at the one end, 8 ft from the fulcrum. If the son weighs 100 lb.and the mother weighs 125 lb., where should the woman sit so that the seesaw is balanced?
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