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In the third century, after the invention of the fulcrum and lever, Archimedes wrote, "Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth."
His eyes askew, aligned by a jagged axis that must have balanced once across the fulcrum of his nose.
Yet, among the kind of people who once upon a time had admired Che and his cause--a lot of people, especially in the generation that was young in the 1960s--the more typical commentaries have balanced on a "but," as on a fulcrum.
A preload of 50 N was applied to a lever arm of 40 cm from the fulcrum, in the opposite direction, at the bottom end of the specimen, as described by Chiba et al [ 6 ] . Two digital goniometers, placed at the junction of the loading frame and the lever arm, measured the angular displacement at the FSU with application of the bending moment.