Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Rebecca on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 7:19pm.

A hiker, who weighs 990 N, is strolling through the woods and crosses a small horizontal bridge. The bridge is uniform, weighs 3550 N, and rests on two concrete supports, one at each end. He stops one-fifth of the way along the bridge. What is the magnitude of the force that a concrete support exerts on the bridge at the near end?

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