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STATICS OF RIGID BODIES

Lecture 3
EQUILIBRANT FORCE

• NET FORCE IS EQUAL TO VECTOR SUM OF ALL

FORCES

• EQUAL IN MAGNITUDE BUT OPPOSITE IN DIRECTIO

OF THE RESULTANT FORCE
LAWS IN CONSIDERATION

• Law of Inertia (Newton’s First Law of Motion)

An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in
motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted
upon by an unbalanced force.

• Action and Reaction Law (Newton’s Third Law of

Motion)
for every action, there is always an opposite and equal
reaction.
FREE BODY DIAGRAM

VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE FORCES ACTING

ON A BODY
N

Ff

Free body diagram

EQUATIONS OF EQUILIBRIUM

COPLANAR Take Note:

CONCURRENT FORCE
Two forces are in equilibrium if they
SYSTEM are equal and oppositely directed.

Horizontal Forces Three coplanar forces in equilibrium

are concurrent.

Three or more concurrent forces in

equilibrium form a close polygon when
connected in head-to-tail manner.
EQUATIONS OF EQUILIBRIUM

COPLANAR PARALLEL COPLANAR NON-

FORCE SYSTEM CONCURRENT FORCE
SYSTEM
MODELING THE ACTION OF FORCES

• 2D
DIMENSIONAL
ANALYSIS
MODELING THE ACTION OF FORCES

• 2D
DIMENSIONAL
ANALYSIS
MODELING THE ACTION OF FORCES

• 2D
DIMENSIONAL
ANALYSIS
MODELING THE ACTION OF FORCES

• 2D
DIMENSIONAL
ANALYSIS
MODELING THE ACTION OF FORCES
3D DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
MODELING THE ACTION OF FORCES
3D DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
EQUATIONS OF EQUILIBRIUM

SPATIAL CONCURRENT
FORCE SYSTEM