Explain how an oar rowing a boat belongs to the lever of class 2nd?

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In rowing a boat, regarding it has the weight or resistance to being moved, the water must be considered as the fulcrum, against which the pressure of the blade of the oar acting as a lever of the second kind, moved by the hand of the waterman, as the power, at the opposite extremity, produces the motion of boat.

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