Moving the Fulcrum on a Balance Beam


What happens when you click and drag the fulcrum (red triangle) back and forth?

You're viewing this page with a browser that doesn't understand the APPLET tag. If you were using a Java-enabled browser that understood the APPLET tag, you would see an interactive balance beam here.

Note that we are not taking into account the weight of the beam -- just balancing the weights at the ends of the beam.