Engineering Tutorials

Torque due to a force: As discussed earlier, torque about a point due to a force is obtained as the vector product

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Equilibrium of Bodies

In the static part when we say that a body is in equilibrium, what we mean is that the body is not moving at all even though there may be forces acting on it. (In general equilibrium means that there is no acceleration i.e., the body is moving with constant velocity but in this special case we take this constant to be zero).

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