Recent content by rohmand

hrmm well i see your point, and I've seen drawings done both ways, i would like to assume that your right and I am overthinking it and that the length of A to B is 15 foot however my TA told us that we would need to use the law of sines and the inverse tan function to find that angle and the...

ah yes, after talking to a class mate today and working the problem in a couple ways knowing i was wrong but just trying to see if i can explain to myself why its wrong and how to correct it, anyway that being said yes i found that the force at B would equal 15F/2 + 10F/2, and i actually broke...

yes its all symmetrical so the loads at the support reactions will be equal, and the above picture is missing some values i didnt realize that but the copy we were handed in class had them filled it B to C is 10 feet as is C-D and D-E, A-B is 15 foot as is F-G, would DEFG all be the same value...

well I've noticed that but that's my main problem i just have no idea how to apply the distributed load to each joint, i understand that that's why i need to break it down to then i could do a truss analysis by method of joints or method of sections, however we haven't done any of this stuff in...

We were given a small project to do before a test in my engineering statics class, i understand the goals of the project and understand the steps i need to take (i believe) however i don't understand how to simplify the distributed load into something i can anylize as we haven't seen anything...