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Support member by resting it on your hand located at various positions Does hand always exert a net force which acts through the center of the area of contact? Represent Unknown Contact Forces Yes No Gr Pi Are you able to keep the member in equilibrium regardless of position of your hand? Yes No Gr Pi If board would exert net force acting through center moments would not be in equilibrium! Represent Unknown Contact Forces Force necessary to maintain equilibrium: not through board center! Cannot be balanced! Represent Unknown Contact Forces Deformation of the supporting foam seen as evidence that the distribution of contact force between the two bodies (puncher and foam block) is non-uniform foam Object is placed off center on a foam block Represent Unknown Contact Forces Cannot be balanced! Distribution of normal forces is increasingly non-uniform Represent Unknown Contact Forces The members weight is supported by a cord attached to the right hook, and by a board under the left portion of the member. The support of the board is always statically equivalent to a single force F in the center of the area of contact, no matter the value of T. T board c Equilibrium with Distributed Contact Forces True False Gr Pi There is only one tension T which will maintain equilibrium There is a lower limit and an upper limit to the tensions T that can maintain equilibrium There is a lower limit to the tensions T that can maintain equilibrium, but no upper limit There is an upper limit to the tensions T that can maintain equilibrium, but no lower limit Which of the following is true? T board W Pi Bl Ye Wh The members weight is supported by a cord attached to the right hook, and by a board under the left portion of the member. Equilibrium with Distributed Contact Forces x = c T min , N max x = 0 T max , N min
0 < x < c T min < T < T max
x c T max
T min
T N max
N N min
Equilibrium with Distributed Contact Forces L 2
T max
N min
Equilibrium with Distributed Contact Forces SM| N = 0: (L 1 -c)T min W(L 2 -c) SM| N = 0: (L 1 )T max W(L 2 ) L 1
T min = W(L 2 -c)/(L 1 -c) T max = W(L 2 /(L 1 ) To find T min , T max :
Joaquin Marro, Ronald Dickman-Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Lattice Models (Collection Alea-Saclay - Monographs and Texts in Statistical Physics) (2005) PDF