Timeline for Spring balance: what will be the reading?
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| Jul 24, 2015 at 19:52 | comment | added | Floris | You don't know what fraction of the mass is connected to the left vs the right; I believe this means you can't know with certainty what the spring will read. But it will be somewhere between 20 and 30 kN. It would be 20 if all the mass is connected to the 30 kN side (with just a light spring to the 20 kN side), and vice versa. | |
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| Jul 24, 2015 at 17:57 | history | answered | Shubham Kulkarni | CC BY-SA 3.0 |