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: Vector Addition of Forces .

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Resultant Force
The two component forces .
F and E acting on the pin can be added together to the form the
resultant force Fr F Fa
From the construction .
or
using the triangle rule We can .
apply the law of cosines or the law of sines to

triangle in order to obtain the magnitude of the resultant force and its direction .

Components of a Force Resolved into 2 components along 2 members ,

defined by the U and V axes .

A parallelogram is constructed first by

. drawing lines starting from the tip of F .

One parallel to u and other parallel to v

The forces components Fu and F are established by simply joining the tail of F

to the intersection points on the u and v axes .

This parallelogram can then be reduced to triangle Which represents the triangle
a .

rule . From this the law of

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sines can be applied to determine the unknown magnitude

of the components .

Addition of several If more than two forces are to be added Successive application of the
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parallelogram law can be carried
Force
out in order to obtain the resultant force .

i 2 If three forces F.Fa E act at a point.

the resultant of any two of the forces is found say F E
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then this resultant is added to the third force yielding the resultant of all 3 forces : Fr E E E
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Using the parallelogram law to add more than two forces .

Often requires extensive geometric and trigonometric calculation to determine the namerial values for the magnitude
and direction of resultant .
Easily solved by using the rectangular component method
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Cosine Law :
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C
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A t B ZAB cos c

sine law :
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B C

sin a sin b Sin c