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Force diagrams and resultant forces

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Multiple forces act on an object at the same time. The size and direction of these forces determines the movement of the ...
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Surprisingly Cool Physics of Pushing a Block Against a Wall

This is a cooler physics problem than I initially realized. It goes something like this. A block has a mass of 1 kg and is placed on a vertical wall such that the coefficient of static friction is 0.5 ...
Nature

Moving Loads on Railway Underbridges, including diagrams of Bending Moments and Shearing Forces, and Tables of Equivalent Uniform Live Loads

THIS is a reprint in book-form, with additions, of a series of articles which appeared in Engineering in the autumn of 1906. Those who have had any experience of such work will know how tedious is the ...
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Force diagrams and resultant forces

Multiple forces act on an object at the same time. The size and direction of these forces determines the movement of the object. Show the forces acting on an object in a free body diagram. The arrows ...