Recent content by rat4x4

Wow, what a stupid question. Sorry guys.

OK, I believe that I have figured it out. Perhaps the delta V is negative and I have always taken it to be a positive quantity.

Something has been bugging me for a long time, since I took my first statics class a few years ago. I have a problem with a common figure found in many statics books. I have attached the figure to my post. My question deals with the delta V added to the shear force on the right side of the...