Friday, September 26, 2008

Explaining a Newton to someone (10 pts)




A common quarter pounder weighs about 200g, with bun, or about 2N. 10 N is about 2.2 pounds. Come up with a scale of common objects that are an example of

1 N (.1 kg)

10 N (1 kg)


100 N

1000 N

10000 N

8 comments:

joe pasker said...

100n=10 kg
1000=100 kg
10000=1000 kg

Unknown said...

1 N (.1 kg)-bag of chips

10 N (1 kg)-small radio


100 N (10 kg)-dog

1000 N-a person

10000 N-a car

Unknown said...

1n a pencil

10ncomputer speaker


1000n a person


10000n a car

Unknown said...

.22lbs/1N=a pencil

2.2lbs/10N=a guenea pig

22lbs/100N=computer moniter

220lbs/1000N=a person

2200lbs/10000=a car

Jon S said...

A Hot dog with bun.

A dog

A linemen

A basketball hoop

A semitruck

Anonymous said...

1 N (.1 kg)-hot dog

10 N (1 kg)-small dog

100 N - line backer

1000 N -car

10000 N - semi-truck

Unknown said...

1 N. bag of chetos
10 N. speaker
100N. dog
1000N. human
1oooN vehicle

Unknown said...

Bag of chips
A shoe
A Doggy
Tory
A car