Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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ISBN: 9781259587399
Author: Eugene Hecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 16SP
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The distance of the 80 kg kid that sits on the left of the fulcrumlying at the center of a horizontally balanced seesaw of length 5.00 m if a 40 kg kid sits at the very rightend.

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