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In rock balancing, the stability of a collection of rocks is related to its center of mass in relation to its resting point (contact points) of the rocks.

The statement "In rock balancing, the stability of a collection of rocks is related to its center of mass in relation to its resting point (contact points) of the rocks." is too vague to call it false, but the information content to small to have any effect beyond suggesting the activity is too complicated for the colleague to write or talk usefully about, without waving their hands. Nice picture tho, and i'm giving a shot to writing something at least vaguely related to it.
--Jerzy•t 16:38, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Multiple rocks

The quora link was moved out of the section title. — Rgdboer (talk) 01:50, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Conservation of momentum

The statement

This applies for all systems with classical internal forces, including magnetic fields

is not correct, since the Newton's Third Law does not apply to magnetic interaction. TheGrysha (talk) 07:51, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]