EMS 302 Lecture Notes - I-Beam, Rigging, Rigid Body
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Loads and reactions: when an object is suspended it exerts force on all the elements that support it (load, elements include: Structural members of the building: force: strength or energy trying to cause change. 100lbs: two distinct branches of mechanics, statics and. Statics and dynamics: statics: the study of, dynamics deals with forces and the effect of forces acting on rigid bodies at rest motion and the effect of forces acting on rigid bodies in motion, no movement in object. = static equilibrium: there is a balance of all of the forces acting on the system. The force law of equilibrium: the algebraic sum of all the forces acting on an object in static equilibrium is zero, therefore all the forces acting on the body are equal and opposite. Free body diagram (fbd: analyzing the forces acting on a body can be complicated.