Two men 'A' and 'B' are standing on opposite edge of a 6m long platform which is further kept on a smooth floor. They starts moving towards each other and finally meet at the midpoint of platform. Find the displacement of platform if mass of A, B and platform are 40kg, 60kg and 50kg respectively
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0.4 m
Sol. X CM = 
= 0
150x = 10 λ
x = 
= 0.4 m
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