A pan balance is made up of a rigid, massless rod with a hanging pan attached at

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A pan balance is made up of a rigid, massless rod with a hanging pan attached at each end. The rod is supported at and frees to rotate about a point not at its center. It is balanced by unequal masses placed in the two pans. When an unknown mass m is placed in the left pan, it is balanced by a mass ml placed in the right pan; when the mass m is placed in the right pan, it is balanced by a mass m2 in the left pan. Show that m = √m1m2.

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Fundamentals of Physics

ISBN: 978-0471758013

8th Extended edition

Authors: Jearl Walker, Halliday Resnick

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