You place a 3.0-m -long board symmetrically across a 0.5-m -wide chair to seat three physics students at a party at your house. If 70-kg D sits on the left end of the board and 50-kg T on the right end of the board, where should 54-kg K sit to keep the board stable? Ignore the mass of the board and treat each student point- like objects. The positive z-direction is to the right, and the origin is at the center of the chair.

You place a 3.0-m -long board symmetrically across a 0.5-m -wide chair to seat three physics students at a party at your house. If 70-kg D sits on the left end of the board and 50-kg T on the right end of the board, where should 54-kg K sit to keep the board stable? Ignore the mass of the board and treat each student point- like objects. The positive z-direction is to the right, and the origin is at the center of the chair.

University Physics Volume 1

18th Edition

ISBN:9781938168277

Author:William Moebs, Samuel J. Ling, Jeff Sanny

Publisher:William Moebs, Samuel J. Ling, Jeff Sanny

Chapter9: Linear Momentum And Collisions

Section: Chapter Questions

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