Torque WS I
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- What is Force?
- What is torque?
- What are two ways that torquecan be increased?
- Daisy tightens a bolt in her car engine by exerting 15 N of force on her wrench at a distance of 0.45 m from the fulcrum. How much torque must Daisy produce to turn the bolt?
- Zach produces 0.12Nm of torque when he turns on a water faucet (radius of 6cm) to fill bottles for the centripetal cup challenge. How much force did he have to apply?
- Emily and Hannah are working in the barn. Emily (60kg) needs to rest so she sits on the very end of a 3m plank carefully balanced on a saw horse. How much torque must Hannah apply at the other end to keep Emily from falling to the ground?
- Alex and Noble are seesawing on the school playground and decide to see if they can move to the correct location to make the seesaw balance. Alex weighs 400 N and he sits 2.0 meters from the fulcrum of the seesaw. How far from the fulcrum should Noble sit to balance the seesaw? Noble weighs 450N.
For problems 8 and 9, masses are being hung on a METER stick (100 cm) with the fulcrum at the 50 cm
mark.
- If a 300g mass is placed at the 0 cm mark (50 cm from the fulcrum), at what cm mark should a 500g mass be placed so that the system is balanced?
- If a 300g mass is placed at the 30 cm mark (20 cm from the fulcrum), at what mark should a 500g mass be placed so that the system is balanced?
- Refer to the diagram below. A ruler has a pivot point at the 40 cm mark. If a 70g mass is placed at the 25 cm mark,what would be the mass of a second object if it balanced the system when placed at the 60 cm mark?