Ok guys.. Now I could admitedly be misunderstanding something here. But I just ran an applet that deals with what looks to be a pretty similiar problem situation. And the results are this 100 grams force pulling on a horizontal rotation platform where in the following weights were pulled around at half way out on the platform and all the way out on the platform half way 500 grams acelleration 1.3915 ms^2 all the way out 250 grams acelleration 1.1819 ms^2 This all seems like really close to our action situation where point mass corresponds to a lead weight, and the platform is our key. Looks to me that more mass closer to the center acellerates faster. Check it yourself http://www.explorescience.com/activities/Activity_page.cfm?ActivityID=28 Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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