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In this project, Maryam and I created an unlikely balancing act using 1st and 2nd equilibrium condition methods. Using many different materials, we created a system in static equilibrium in which 3 objects were suspended differently. We were able to achieve these by having one large mass on a table counteract the rest of the system as normal force and the force of the gravity of the system kept the large mass in equilibrium, then we used another smaller mass to counteract many small masses which all together balanced out by managing the amount of mass in the objects using glass containers and rocks. Furthermore, we can say that the system has many centers of gravity but the main one is in the middle of the hammer and the suspended system. Some errors that could have occurred are that the mass of the strings used to hold the object individually had negligible mass. Still, they could have affected the mass of the suspended portion of the equilibrium system. Another possible error to consider is friction in all points of contact in our system which could have reduced the force of tension from the masses. For our calculation, we proved that our system was in static equilibrium using the concepts of torque and forces using the measured the mass of all objects which gave us their force of gravity and lengths from their respective pendulums. We found out that the torques of the systems were equal to 0 when rounded to a logical amount of the significant figures showing some evidence of error in the system. Something of note is that due to mass 5 being held up by strings at an angle the force of tension would not equal the Force of gravity and we had to turn that area of the system into an equilibrium triangle. This calculation however is negligible due to the force of gravity of the mass held by the strings always being downward.
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