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A uniform metre rule balances horizontally on a knife-edge placed at the 58 cm mark when a weight of 20 gf is suspended from one end.
(i) Draw a diagram of the arrangement. (ii) What is the weight of the rule?

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The diagram below shows a uniform bar supported at the middle point O. A weight of 40 gf is placed at a distance 40 cm to the left of point O. How can you balance the bar with a weight of 80 gf?

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The figure shows a uniform metre rule placed on a fulcrum at its mid-point O and having a weight 40 gf at the 10 cm mark and a weight of 20 gf at the 90 cm mark.
(i) Is the metre rule in equilibrium? If not how will the rule turn?
(ii) How can the rule be brought in equilibrium by using an additional weight of 40 gf?
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When a boy weighing 20 kgf sits at one end of a 4 m long see-saw, it gets depressed at this end. How can it be brought to the horizontal position by a man weighing 40 kgf.
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A physical balance has its arms of length 60 cm and 40 cm. What weight kept on pan of the longer arm will balance an object of weight 100 gf kept on the other pan?
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The diagram shows a uniform metre rule weighing 100 gf, pivoted as its centre O. Two weights 150 gf and 250 gf hang from the points A and B of the metre rule such that OA=40 cm and OB=20 cm. Calculate
(i) the total anticlockwise moment about O.
(ii) the total clockwise moment about O.
(iii) the difference of anticlockwise and clockwise moments.
(iv) the distance from O where a 100 gf weight should be placed to balance the metre rule.
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A uniform metre rule of weight 10 gf is pivoted at its 0 mark.
(i) What moment of force depresses the rule?
(ii) How can it be made horizontal by applying a least force?
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A uniform metre rule of mass 100 g is balanced on a fulcrum at mark 40 cm by suspending an unknown mass m at the mark 20 cm.

(i) Find the value of m.
(ii) To which side the rule will tilt if the mass m is moved to the mark 10 cm
(iii) What is the resultant moment now?
(iv) How can it be balanced by another mass of 50 g?

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Define the term 'centre of gravity of a body' .