Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Kelli on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 3:38pm.

Researchers have found that a gecko's foot is covered with hundreds of thousands of small hairs (setae) that allow it to walk up walls and even across ceilings. A single foot pad, which has an area of , can attach to a wall or ceiling with a force of 11 .
How many 250- geckos could be suspended from the ceiling by a single foot pad?

Physics - bobpursley, Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 4:08pm
Your use of numerials for units makes it impossbile to decipher. 11 what? 250 what? and area of ?
Physics - Kelli, Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 5:44pm
11 N.
250 grams
1.0 cm2
Physics - Anonymous, Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 5:48pm
The 1.0cm2 is the area of the single foot pad.

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