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Honors Physics - Static Equilibrium and Torque Worksheet

This document contains 8 physics problems involving static equilibrium and torque. The problems calculate unknown values like mass, force, or distance given information about lever systems, beams, ladders, and tackles that are in static equilibrium. The solutions involve applying the principles of torque, forces, and levers.

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Honors Physics - Static Equilibrium and Torque Worksheet

This document contains 8 physics problems involving static equilibrium and torque. The problems calculate unknown values like mass, force, or distance given information about lever systems, beams, ladders, and tackles that are in static equilibrium. The solutions involve applying the principles of torque, forces, and levers.

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Honors Physics – Static Equilibrium and Torque Worksheet

1. A uniform, 100-g meter stick is placed atop a 6. A window washer is standing on a scaffold
fulcrum positioned at 65 cm. Where would a supported by a vertical rope at each end. The
150-g mass be hung from the meter stick scaffold weighs 200 N and is 3.00 m long.
such that it would be balanced? [75 cm] What is the tension in each rope when the
700-N worker stands 1.00 m from one end?
2. The same meter stick as in the above
[567 N, 333 N]
problem is now placed atop a fulcrum
positioned at 30 cm. The meter stick has a 7.
20-g mass attached at 96 cm and a 100-g
mass attached at 22 cm. Where would a 200-
g mass be positioned such that the meter
stick is balanced? [17.4 cm]
3.

A beam resting on two pivots has a length of


L = 6.00 m and a mass M = 90.0 kg. One
pivot is to the far left while the other is a
distance l = 4.00 m from the left edge of the
In the arrangement of tackle boxes and fish in
beam. A woman of mass m = 55.0 kg starts
equilibrium, what is the mass of the fish?
walking along the beam as shown. At what
Assume the bar is massless. [3.0 kg]
distance x from the left edge of the beam will
4. the woman be just as the beam starts to tip?
[5.63 m]
8.

A 50-N bowling ball is held in a person’s hand


horizontally as shown above. Find the upward
force exerted by the biceps on the ulna, and
downward force exerted by the humerus on
the ulna. [583 N, 533 N]
5. A 50-N, 10-m long uniform ladder rests on the Hey Yogi! A hungry 700-N bear walks out on
side of a smooth vertical wall, and is held in a 6-m long, 200-N beam to get an 80-N pic-a-
place by friction with the floor below. If the nic basket as shown. Note that the beam is
ladder just starts to slip at a 50° angle with connected to the wall by a hinge. (a) If the
the floor, what is the coefficient of friction wire can support a maximum of 900 N, at
between the ladder and the floor? [0.420] what distance x would the wire break? (b)
What is the tension T in the wire, and what
are the vertical and horizontal forces Hx and
Hy exerted by the hinge, when the bear is at
x = 1.00 m? [5.14 m, T = 343 N, Hx = 172 N,
Hy = 683 N]

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