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No worries! That seems to be everyone's first impression, including mine. Thank you for the help! The more advanced beam mechanics is exactly what I'm looking for, do you recommend any books in particular?

Awesome, thank you so much!

Right this is what I've been using to try to figure it out but I get stuck with something like x+y=T where x and y are unknown.

Hey there, I'm trying to figure out how torque operates in combination and I can't find anything relating to this in any textbooks or online. So if you a mass held by two strings in equilibrium, the force of gravity is split evenly between them right? What happens if you have torque instead of...

Been working on it for a few hours and I'm quite stuck. I'm trying the first method. The following is what I think the free body diagram is. From which I get the following equations for the torque around each point Torque around midpoint between 2 and a: (d + 0.5*r1)F1 - 0.5*r1F2 - 0.5*r1Fa -...

Oh right, fantastic! Let me give that a try.

Figure: 1. Homework Statement We know system is in equilibrium and we are given the mass m, and the distances d, r1, and r2. We assume that the rotational inertia of the bar is negligible. What are the forces at points a and b? Homework Equations Torque = radius × Force Force = mass *...