Recent content by mark.k

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    Couples and Forces: Understanding the Concepts

    Thank you very much for all of your replies and especially to vela for his clear explanation. I just do not understand one more thing. In statics, do we always assume that the body is fixed around its centre of mass? Thank you very much and have a great day
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    Couples and Forces: Understanding the Concepts

    I have a general question. I just do not understand two concepts: 1. The idea of a couple being a free vector: If a couple produces a moment around the midpoint of the distance between the two forces that create a couple then how come if we move it to a different point of a body it creates...
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    Schools Track One to Engineering Science at University of Toronto

    Ok, thank you very much for all of your responses, I will ask the univeristy about this. I was wandering if anyone was able to do that, but it seems impossible. Anyway, thanks a lot.
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    Schools Track One to Engineering Science at University of Toronto

    Hello everyone, This year I am going to Track One engineering at U of T. I chose Engineering Science, but I didn't get in. On some other forum I have found one person, who said that people can switch to EngSci after TrackOne if they have a very high average. On the U of T website it says that...