Free Body Diagrams
We visit a bustling port on Georgia's coast to illustrate how free body diagrams help us analyze forces. Useful rules for drawing free body diagrams are also explained.
We visit a bustling port on Georgia's coast to illustrate how free body diagrams help us analyze forces. Useful rules for drawing free body diagrams are also explained.
Learning Objectives
-Understand the rules associated with the creation of a free body diagram that represents the forces acting on an object.
-Discern what different types of forces are and how to label them on a free body diagram.
-Draw free body diagrams for objects that have forces acting on them in one dimension and two dimensions.
-Understand the rules associated with the creation of a free body diagram that represents the forces acting on an object.
-Discern what different types of forces are and how to label them on a free body diagram.
-Draw free body diagrams for objects that have forces acting on them in one dimension and two dimensions.
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Vocabulary
balanced forces - when the sum of the forces acting on an object are equal the object will remain at rest, or it will move at a constant velocity. force - a push or a pull. free body diagram - a figure used to visualize the forces acting on an object in a given condition. net force - the sum of all of the forces acting on an object. unbalanced forces - when the sum of the forces acting on an object are not equal, the object will accelerate or decelerate. Closer Look
In this Closer Look segment on free body diagrams, we break down how to draw free body diagrams and work through three different examples. |