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Free Body Diagrams

Free Body Diagrams. Setting up a FBD for statics. What is a Free Body Diagram?. A Free Body Diagram is a way of analysing a physics problem by breaking it down into a simpler arrangement . This is particularly helpful when dealing with a complex device with many parts and connections.

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Free Body Diagrams

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  1. Free Body Diagrams Setting up a FBD for statics

  2. What is a Free Body Diagram? • A Free Body Diagram is a way of analysing a physics problem by breaking it down into a simpler arrangement. • This is particularly helpful when dealing with a complex device with many parts and connections. • Almost every engineering problem begins with a Free Body Diagram.

  3. All it starts with Newton’s Laws of motion. • Well, one of them anyway. • Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. • This might be one of Newton's laws of motion, but it still works even when there is no motion. When things are static.

  4. Action / Reaction • We’ll begin with Newton’s third law. • Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. • It might be one of Newton's laws of motion, but it still works even when there is no motion. When things are static.

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