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Thanks both of you for your useful answers! Glad I'm not as psychotic as the peers I've discussed this with think I am. I wonder if there is not some more elegant relationship that one could come up with than the Timoshenko derivation but that isn't as assumptive as the Pythagorean result. I...

Hello you clever people, I'm having a bit of a logical problem with the deflection of a simple uniform cantilever beam loaded with a downward force on the free end. My intuition is that the beam would do something like this: But most literature, and my mechanics of solids course at uni...