How do you calculate joules? someone please help me I beg

The car hoist allows the car to be driven onto the platform, after which the rear wheels are raised. if the loading from both rear wheels is 1380 lb, determine the force in the hydraulic cylinder ab. neglect the weight of the platform itself. member bcd is a right-angle bell crank pinned to the ramp at c. the force is positive if in tension, negative if in compression.

Awind turbine is rotating counterclockwise at 0.5 rev/s and slows to a stop in 10 s. its blades are 20 m in length. (a) what is the angular acceleration of the turbine? (b) what is the centripetal acceleration of the tip of the blades at t=0s? (c) what is the magnitude and direction of the total linear acceleration of the tip of the blades at t=0s?

Will mark as brainliest how does a catapult increase the trajectory of an object? ps. answer as if u were a 5th grader