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From what the teacher let us know, he would either apply a force onto the beam and then have us calculate the shear force with an SFD, as you said, which in my opinion would be easy. OR, he would apply a shear force on the cross section in one of the points; A,B,C,D or E and then we would have...

Homework Statement My prof gave us this take home quiz to complete to prepare for our actual quiz. We are studying Shear force due to bending of beams (2nd year mech eng). In this question he told us that the shear force (V) can be applied at any of the points and that we would need to find the...