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Excellent - thank you both!

I need to settle an argument between two mech eng colleagues... Here goes. There is an infinitely rigid beam running between two walls. The attachment points are fixed. There is a force acting downwards on the center of the beam. The disagreement is on whether there is a reactive torque in the...

If you stretch a rubber band around a pole, the band exerts a force onto the surface of the pole (F1 in figure 1). Is it possible to calculate this force if I know the force needed to stretch the rubber band to the same total length as the circumference of the pole? That is to say: 1. I know...