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Ah...makes sense now. I greatly over complicated this problem. Thank you!

Homework Statement Determine the magnitude of F that will cause the net effect of the three forces to act vertically. In the diagram there are three bolts (I'll refer to the first two as B1 and B2), and the third bolt, F, is undefined. F acts 45 degrees northeast of the horizontal, B1 is 410N...

Sorry if my English is bad. We're building bridges and learning about truss and truss variations, but I'm still confused as to why the triangular shapes work best and what they achieve. How would I know side would be compressed and which would be tense? We have to build a bridge using roughly...

Having a little trouble with this latest advanced egg drop assignment. The main assignment has two parts - 1. Create a rocket that can reach a minimum height of 120 ft 2. Create a vehicle that can land with an egg for a passenger, and not have it crack. We also aren't allowed to use...

So just some background info...I'm in a summer engineering program. We're all high school students (with little to no engineering experience), and we've only been in the program for two weeks now. Just recently our professor assigned my group an assignment to create a spring-assisted magnetic...