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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop toos your

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brought to you by circus clowns How do you fit

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fifty clowns in a weird tiny car physics Probably All

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right benny said circles watching the sideshow He observes a

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fifty kilogram clown jump onto a five hundred kilogram lion

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what's the gravitational force acting upon the lion and hear

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the potential answers All right well clowns are kind of

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creepy already right But a clown on top of a

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lion What a freaking nightmare Answer this question correctly It's

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important that we understand exactly what it's asking Well the

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question isn't asking about the total force exerted on the

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lion in the clown and it's not asking about the

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force exerted by the weight on the lion's back either

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It's asking about the gravitational force acting upon the lion

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and only the lines Two things we need to answer

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this question of the line's Wait Just five hundred kilograms

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and the force of gravity which is about ten meters

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per second squared Now all we have to do is

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multiply those two together to get the answer Which is

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Yeah Five thousand newton's Right Option b is the correct

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Answer This question is a little tricky because it gives

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us more information than we actually need to answer it

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So we need to make sure that we fully understand

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What's being asked if we don't get distracted by the 00:01:18.969 --> [endTime] shine would like that

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