A balanced lever has two weights on it, the first with mass #15 kg # and the second with mass #18 kg#. If the first weight is # 9 m# from the fulcrum, how far is the second weight from the fulcrum?
1 Answer
Apr 3, 2018
Explanation:
For a balanced lever, we have:
#m_1,m_2# are the masses of the two objects
#d_1,d_2# are the distances of the two objects from the fulcrum
And so, we got: