A see-saw made from 4 meter board sits on a pivot at its center. A child...

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A see-saw made from 4 meter board sits on a pivot at its center.A child weighing 280 N sits 1.75 m away from the center. A secondchild who weighs 330 N sits on the other side such that the boardremains horizontal and steady.

Now you come and push on the end of the seesaw nearest thesecond child with a force of 110 N. You don’t push straight up, butat an angle of 25° from the vertical – tilted a bit toward thecenter of the seesaw. The first child moves to maintainequilibrium.

(d) Based on your intuition, which way should the child move?Towards or away from the center?

(e) Calculate how far she is now from the center?

(f) What is the force now (magnitude and direction) that thepivot applies to the board?

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initial condition before applying force let the second child sits at a distance of d from the center then for torque balancing about the pivot 280175330d d28017533014848 m from the center final conditionafter the force is applied as the    See Answer
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