Curated OER
Balanced Forces
Examples and practice questions will help real-life understanding of the Principle of Moments concept. These great slides define the types of levers and pivots, and then give examples of the typical seesaw situations that help the...
Curated OER
Worksheet 9
In this math instructional activity, students examine how the moment of a force about a point is defined. They look at the 2 problems to define the information contained in them.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sum It Up: An Introduction to Static Equilibrium
Students are introduced to static equilibrium by learning how forces and torques are balanced in a well-designed engineering structure. A tower crane is presented as a simplified two-dimensional case. Using Popsicle sticks and hot glue,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fairly Fundamental Facts About Forces & Structures
This lesson will introduce students to the five fundamental loads: compression, tension, shear, bending, and torsion.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Centroids
These examples demonstrate how to use integration to find the centroid (center of mass) of an object.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Learning Center: Rigid Bodies and Rotational Motion
From the companion web site for the Contemporary College Physics web site. The collection of pages indexed from this page lead to a variety of useful resources pertinent to Chapter 9 (Rigid Bodies and Rotational Motion) of the book. Such...