It is a thousand yeas ago. You, along with your friend king Ethelred the Unready

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It is a thousand yeas ago. You, along with your friend king Ethelred the Unready, have been hunting wild boar. You've had good luck; you shot a 150 lb boar. Now the hard part; you have to carry it back to the castle several furlongs away. Fortunately you have some rope and an 8 cubit pole. You will suspend the boar from the pole and the two of you will support the pole on your shoulders. Ethelred will support the front of the pole; you will support the back. You convince Ethelred that the boar should not be suspended right in the middle of the pole, but for better steering of the pole the boar should be suspended closer to Ethelred than to you. In a single well written paragraph, using physics, explain why Ethelred is getting a bad deal.

Explanation / Answer

torque is propotional to r. as torque applyed by me and Ethelred are same for equilibrium of body. force applyed by me is less( as torque = F*R, torque is same and R is grater for me so F is less). so Ethelred is getting a bad deal.

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