Not so Mobile UVA
Before being an ubiquous communications gadget, a mobile was just a structure made of strings and wires suspending colourfull things. This kind of mobile is usually found hanging over cradles of small babies. The figure illustrates a simple mobile. It is just a wire, suspended by a string, with an object on each side. It can also be seen as a kind of lever with the fulcrum on the point where the string ties the wire. From the lever principle we know that to balance a simple mobile the product of the weight of the objects by their distance to the fulcrum must be equal. That is Wl × Dl = Wr