The mass of a pet turtle that weighs 10N is how much in kg's?

kp2171

we wont do your homework for you

use the formula F = m*a

"a" here is the acceleration due to gravity.

there are tons of examples in books and you should have some in your class notes.

do some work, post your answer.

colbtech

Thoroughly agree. A little bit of research on the internet will give you the answer. Try looking for "newton's to kilogram conversion" or if that doesn't help. Something a little more basic like "online conversions".

kp2171

ah.... too complicated for us with more than one brain... actually, the problem is simple enough that anyone with a basic understanding of how to manipulate math and dimensional analysis should be able to do it. those unfamiliar with the formula might not know where to start. those asking about the formula or a problem needing said formula USUALLY are in a class... hence my terribly mistaken assumption that you might need this for a class.

we have a history here of helping people who post questions and are legitimately trying the problems... as in posting their answers or explaining where they are failing to understand. you know... they are trying to understand. that little thing called learning. i suppose im wasting my breath here.

if you spent ANY time here you would have seen that every day there are requests, just like yours, for questions that people dont just ask out of the blue most days. most of the time, they are clearly homework... your post is one of those questions. dont know about you, but most people do not own a scale that reads in newtons. maybe you are just that special. oh...wait...i am wrong... there was that one person who came in off the street who wanted to know about the different spacial structural conformations of meth, so that she could argue to get her son less jail time... but i doubt that turtles have anything to do with meth so maybe im just wrong, judgemental and jaded.

heres a huge hint... ready???

if F=MA then you can rearrange to get M=F/A. plug in the numbers and *poof* you have the magic weight of your beloved turtle. SECOND big hint of the day... A = the acceleration due to gravity... a constant that can be looked up. but that might require you to do some work.

good luck and best wishes to your turtle.

colbtech

Nicely put kp.....personally I don't mind doing other peoples home work. It adds to my education rather than theirs. Although having just zoomed past my 50th birthday, I would much rather be working in my garden or down the pub with a few mates.

I wish the internet had been around in its current form when I was a lad. (Electric and cars had been going for some time by then, but telephone communications on the island was still in its infancy compared to today)

Bring on more questions...it's fun learning (something I didn't appreciate as a kid)

kp2171

i dont mind helping either... "help" being the important word there...the first posts i made regularly at AMHD were usually in the chemistry and physical sciences sections... and with a formula so simple, i imagine just providing the answer could have been done.

but in the last week ive seen more blatant requests for what is clearly the answer to a homework assignment, and very few of them even tried to solve the problems. never has a buddy of mine leaned over during the game and asked "so using the henderson-hasselbach equation, what is the pH of a solution bearing 0.5M sodium acetate and 0.25 acetic acid given the pKa of 4.8?"

and im a bit jaded for sure because as a person who taught in the sciences i have seen a real lack of effort and a sense of entitlement in some students. in our teaching labs we would grade on their ability to arrive at answers on their own, and some would get furious that we would not confirm the validity of the results before grading. folks, sometimes you are graded on your natural abilities without the benefit of others watching your back. those students who at least honestly attempted to try problems and failed at getting the right answer received plenty of help. unfortunately here, there is no way to know who is curious and who is trolling for answers. this post smacked of a textbook question out of the gate, being a N to kg conversion instead of, say, a lb to kg problem.

and yeah... its pretty amazing what we take for granted today with the knowledge base that is out there in the net. i still go to the library from time to time, but if i need to research what photo scanner has the best ratings, or if i need to see if a flight to the airport is scheduled on time, or if i need to look up the symptoms of erythopoietic porphyria, the internet has become an invaluable tool.

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How many kg = a N?

colbtech

As above.....{A little bit of research on the internet will give you the answer. Try looking for "newton's to kilogram conversion" or if that doesn't help. Something a little more basic like "online conversions".}

meganmallin

1 Newton(N)