{"id":5726,"date":"2016-05-23T20:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/?p=5726"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:42","slug":"hammer-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2016\/05\/hammer-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammer Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hammer-balance.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5725\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hammer-balance.jpg\" alt=\"hammer balance\" width=\"277\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hammer-balance.jpg 277w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hammer-balance-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hammer-balance-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151220.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5684 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151220-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"hanging hammer 1\" width=\"479\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151220-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151220-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151220-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151220-772x434.jpg 772w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151220-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151220.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151219.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5683\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5683\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151219-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"hanging hammer 2\" width=\"492\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151219-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151219-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151219-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151219-772x434.jpg 772w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151219-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1214151219.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Hammer balances in a manner that appears impossible, but does so because 1) center of mass is\u00a0not beyond edge of table, and 2) angular displacement of hammer increases potential energy of system, meaning system is stable. Stick end can be pushed very close to table edge, as seen in above photo.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Demo located in L02, section B4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hammer balances in a manner that appears impossible, but does so because 1) center of mass is\u00a0not beyond edge of table, and 2) angular displacement of hammer increases potential energy of system, meaning system is stable. Stick end can be pushed very close to table edge, as seen in above photo. Demo located in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2016\/05\/hammer-balance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hammer Balance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,65],"tags":[96,269,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5758,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions\/5758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}