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Questions about Physics

You have an inclined treadmill with a cylinder. How do you need to control the treadmill so that the cylinder doesn't fall? If you adjust the treadmill's inclination, how does the treadmill speed control need to be changed? Given a treadmill's limited speed range and assuming that the treadmill can be inclined within a certain range both positively and negatively, how would you control the treadmill to launch the cylinder as far as possible.

A woman holds a box by gripping two adjacent faces. How much pressure does she have to exert on the box to keep it from falling?

Question about Culture

Voicemail in the US has become pretty standardized. To go forward a message, you push 6, and to go back you push 4. This may be embedded in our writing system which goes left to right. Thus, 6, being on the right side indicates that we're continuing to "write" and advances a message. Contrariwise, 4, being on the left side, indicates that we need to go back to what has already been "written" and goes back a messge.

Assume that the telephone keypad is the same. In cultures that write right to left, would 4 advance to the next message and 6 go back?