Question

A bucket filled with water has a mass of 23 Kg and is attached to a rope, which in turn is wound around a 0.050 m radius cylinder at the top of a well. What torque does the weight of water and bucket produce on the cylinder if the cylinder is ont permitted to rotate? (g= 9.8 m/s2)

Answer 1

The torque is 11.27 N m

Step-by-step explanation:

Recall that torque is the vector product of the force times the distance to the pivoting point. So in our case, the distance to the pivoting point is the radius of the cylinder (0.05 m), and the force is given by the weight of the bucket full of water (W = 9.8 * 23 N = 225.4 N)

Then the torque is: 0.05 * 225.4 N m = 11.27 N m