INTRODU UCTION Afreebod dydiagramis sjustasimple esketchoftheobjectshow wingallthefo orcesthatare eactingonit. howsalltheforces f actingonasingle,is solatedbody.

.Onlyforcesshouldbeen ntered Afreebodydiagramsh ram is that, a as Newtons laws describe e, the on a freebody diagram. The idea behind a freebody diagr y determined d by the forc ces exerted on the objec ct. In essence, we motion of an object is completely ach agent int teracting with h the object by b the force iit exerts on the object. Th his is why the body replace ea must be isolated i (a fre ee body). Ind dicating all of f the forces a acting on a single body makes it possib ble to discuss an nd determine e the behavio or of that bo ody without r referring to a any of the ob bjects exertin ng the forces. m,youmustfollow f theses steps: Todrawaproperfreebodydiagram Drawaquicksketch s oftheobject.Often nasimplebox xwilldo. Place a dot in the center of f the object. We basically treat this as the spot that all the force es are th hought to act t upon. In a free f body dia agram the ob bject is drawn n as a point because New wtons la awsarevalidonlyforpoint tobjects. Fo or every force acting on that t object (w we don't care e about force es acting on a any other obj jects), drawavectorthatshowsth hesizeanddirectionofth eforce.Each hvectormuststartfromth hedot nd point outw wards. Show each force exerted e on th he body as a directed line segment wit th the an ection of the ta ail end of the e vector start ting at the point. The dire e arrow shou uld be in the same direction as the force. Wh henever poss sible the len ngth of the v vector should d be drawn to be oughlyproportionaltothe esizeofthefo orce ro EXAMPLE ES 1. Ablockissusp pendedfromamasslessro ope

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stant velocity y along a hor rizontal surface having coefficient of k kinetic 4. A block is pulled with cons rictionk fr

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ondblockm2 sitsontopo 8. Ablockhaving gmassm1sitsatrestonahorizontalsu urface.Aseco ofthe firstblock.

ctionless inclline that ma akes an angle e of 30 with the 9. A crate having mass m1 sits on a fric dtom1passe esoverapulle eyatthetop oftheincline eandhasase econd horizontal.Aropeattached mass m m2attac chedtoitsoth herend.

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