It would be great to have a proper seesaw in the lab but I don"t think it"s going to happen so I will probably rely heavily on interactive physics animations to demonstrate what"s happening. The problem with using real beams for demos is that its not easy to measure the forces except in the simple beam balanced in the middle where weights can be used.Balancing torques test Balanced beams

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