Question

You are holding a shopping basket at the grocery store with two 0.59 kg cartons of cereal at one end of the basket. The basket is 0.69 m long. Where should you place a half gallon of milk (1.8 kg) so that the center of mass (COM) of your groceries is at the center of the basket?

? m from the center of the basket, opposite the cartons of cereal.

(Why do you want the COM of the groceries to be at the center of the basket?)

Answer 1