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Hello,
Comparing these two problems, 9.6 says to calculate the elastic curve for portion BC. However, in the solution they include the contribution from P which is not contained in portion BC in the representative cut to calculate the moment at X.
Yet, in the next problem 9.7 they ask to calculate the elastic curve for portion AB, and they don't include the loading distribution in the calculating of the moment at X for the representative cut.
This seems to be contradictory and now I am confused.
Also, for problem 9.4, I am not understanding why the loading of a right triangle is 1/2w(x/L)x and not 1/2wx. After all, for a straight loading the force on the representative cut is wx, not w(x/L)x
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