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Hey guys, this came up in one of my past papers, and I'm not quite sure where to go with it. The diagram shows an idealized structure consisting of an L-shaped rigid bar structure supported b linearly elastic springs at A and C. Rotational Stiffness is denoted βR and translational stiffness...

Would there not be any kind of rotation about the top of the wire though?

a rectangular plate of length 300mm and depth 200mm, whose top left corner is attached to a wire of 200mm is dropped lengthways. What is the angular velocity of the plate and the speed of the corner opposite to the one the wire is attached to, just after the wire is pulled taut (it doesn't...