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You are standing at the very rear of a 6.0-m-long, 120-kg raft that is at rest in a lake with its prow only from the end of the pier (Figure 5-87). Your mass is . Neglect frictional forces between the raft and the water.
When you are at the front of the raft, how far are you from the end of the pier?
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1 of 4In the last part of this task we have to determine how far are we from the end of the pier if we are at the front of the raft. First, we have to define x coordinate of the center of the mass in this case.
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