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Most of you at some time or other will have used a screwdriver to prize the lid off a paint tin. Does the length of the screwdriver matter? Would the lid of the paint tin come off just as easily if it were prised off using a coin?
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© 1984 H. J. P. Keighley, F. R. McKim, A. Clark and M. J. Harrison
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Keighley, H.J.P., McKim, F.R., Clark, A., Harrison, M.J. (1984). Levers and Centres of Gravity. In: Mastering Physics. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07381-8_5
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