Force Diagrams

Concepts Learned

  • How to draw force diagrams!
  • Drawing force diagrams of real objects.
  • Basic structures - forces on structures. Making things that don't fall over!

Activities

Building a structure? Writing down the forces involved.

Students build structures for each other, the other one writes down a free body diagram for it.

Do we go into joints at this point? Do we go into individual components?

The reason force diagrams are important are that we can take the forces at joints…

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