Why would an insurance company want people to avoid risk, like nick cannon having to avoid skydiving?

Brutus, the dog, is pulling a bone to the left with a force of 20 n. lassie, another dog, is pulling a bone to the right with a force of 18n. what is the net force? a. b. c.

When the displacement of a mass on a spring is 12a the half of the amplitude, what fraction of the mechanical energy is kinetic energy? at what displacement, as a fraction of a, is the mechanical energy half kinetic and half potential?

Asolid cylinder and a cylindrical shell have the same mass, same radius, and turn on frictionless, horizontal axles. the cylindrical shell has light-weight spokes connecting the shell to the axle. a rope is wrapped around each cylinder and tied to blocks of equal masses that are held the same height above the ground. both blocks are released simultaneously. the ropes do not slip. which block hits the ground first? or is it a tie?