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Resultant The Acting Together Triangle Apply: Component E FR Using Triangle

1. Vector addition of forces can be used to find the resultant force of two or more component forces acting on an object. 2. The component forces can be resolved and added using a parallelogram construction based on the triangle rule, or the law of cosines and sines can be applied to the triangle. 3. For more than two forces, successive applications of the parallelogram law allows determining the resultant force through vector addition.

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Resultant The Acting Together Triangle Apply: Component E FR Using Triangle

1. Vector addition of forces can be used to find the resultant force of two or more component forces acting on an object. 2. The component forces can be resolved and added using a parallelogram construction based on the triangle rule, or the law of cosines and sines can be applied to the triangle. 3. For more than two forces, successive applications of the parallelogram law allows determining the resultant force through vector addition.

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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


.
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
.
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
. . and

then this resultant is added to the third force yielding the resultant of all 3 forces : Fr E E E
,
.

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 :
A -
B C

sin a sin b Sin c

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