MOMENT OF FORCES AND EQUILIBRIUM IN PHYSICS

MOMENT OF FORCES

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Moment of Forces

We discovered in the previous course on concepts of forces, that an acceleration results when an unbalanced forceUnbalanced force is the force that is not being balanced by ... acts on a body. This situation is related to the other physical phenomenon called moment of forces.

In many cases however, a number of forces act on a body in such a way that no acceleration is produced. When this happens, we say that the body is in equilibrium. A body in equilibrium will either be at rest or in uniform motionMotion is the act of changing location from one place to ano...

At the end of this chapter you should be able to:

1. Perform calculations based on the principle of moments.
2. Investigate the everyday application of moments.