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The force you can exert is your mass times your acceleration. The force is only limited by your ability to push yourself off the willow shoot. Imagine that you lie down next to the shoot, holding it in both hands. If you now pulled yourself up rapidly (the way some circus acrobats can pull themselves up a rope while appearing to hang horizontally) then you ...

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If you think about Newton's third law and standing still vs jumping. When you stand still the ground exerts a reaction force on you which is equal and opposite to your weight by Newton's third law. If you jump upwards at the point where you begin to drive upwards you are applying a greater force on the ground than the standing still case, this difference is ...

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Use a lever. For an application like driving branches in the great outdoors, you would need to come prepared, or locate the site next to something heavy. Anchor one end of the lever under something heavy. Attach something to the branch to press against, and put the branch between you, at one end, and the fulcrum at the other. The lever acts as a force ...

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I'm assuming you haven't taken any physics courses, so let's start by explaining the concept of a force. Forces are the central focus of classical mechanics. Basically, a force is a push or pull on an object as a result of its interaction with another object. When applied to an object with mass, a force causes the object's velocity to change in some way. ...

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On the elevator two forces act.One is the gravitational force and other is the normal force. so from F=ma we can say- F(normal)-F(Gravitational)=ma so,F(n)=f(g)+ma so,F(n)=m(g+a) You just need to put the values in these equations and solve for acceleration. And as for the direction know one thing-When the body moves upwards the elevator shows a greater ...

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By adding the rubber band you did two things: increased the air drag unbalanced the fan The bearings of a fan don't like to be unbalanced - the friction goes up significantly because as the fan picks up speed there will be a large lateral force (centripetal force keeping the rubber band plus object in their circular orbit). When you balance the fan it ...

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Yes, you can. The amount of force you can exert on an object is limited only by the geometry and strength of your muscles. However, Newton's 3rd law dictates that however much force you exert on an object, the object will exert the same amount of force on you, in the opposite direction. So, if you exert a force larger than your weight down on a stick, ...

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The load increased but the input power driving the fan remained same. Moreover in very accurate measurements, the air drag can also not be neglected, all this will hold for a very another reason that the blades rotated by the motor are of very much comparable mass to the taped rubber & stuff.

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One approach everybody seems to have missed: increase your weight. Put some weights in a strong backpack.

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To get to a final rotational velocity $\Omega$ is takes the same amount of energy regadless of where you push. Why? Well the final kinetic energy is $K=\frac{1}{2} I \Omega^2$ (where $I$ is the mass moment of inertia about the hinge) and this value does not depend on where you push. This is kind of a boring result. What does differ is how much you need to ...

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The force between the roller and the road is in the vertical direction so there is no effect of friction. Moreover the speed is constant so there is no acceleration. The only forces acting in the vertical direction are the weight, $W=mg$, and the reaction force between the roller and the road, $F$. As the roller is not accelerating vertically, these must ...

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As you can see here http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/exper2/exper2_05.gif the surface tension depends on the width of the film you are pulling. At the extreme case you would make two surfaces with each water molecule of one half of the water attached to a polar group of the surface. Then contact the surfaces so that each water molecule is opposite to another ...

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This is because gravity doesn't exert a "force" on objects, gravity works by bending spacetime. Light doesn't tend to accelerate so it will take a geodesic path through spacetime; this means that it takes a "straight" path through curved space, which is what gravity is. The reason we experience gravity is because when not accelerated we will take a geodesic ...

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I feel like it is correct to call gravity a force. As you know, there are several models for how the universe works. The Newtonian model. The relativistic model. The quantum-mechanical model. Within certain different boundaries of scale, these each work very well at predicting things that will happen. However the language or terminology of each ...

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http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3702 : "We give a rigorous computer-assisted proof that the triangular bi-pyramid is the unique configuration of 5 points on the 2-sphere that globally minimizes the Coulomb (1/r) potential. We also prove the same result for the (1/r^2) potential. The main mathematical contribution of the paper is a fairly efficient energy estimate ...

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