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What about this distribution over the same beam: As far as I can tell the centroid is on the right half of the beam but the point of zero shear is in the left half of the beam.

Thanks heaps for that. I can see how in this case that the distribution being greater on the right half of the beam should push the centroid and point of zero shear to the right half of the beam as well. What I am having trouble with now is whether, for any distribution, the centroid being in...

The spreadsheet that I am using is attached.

As I don't know the equation of the curve ( although it looks like some function of ln ) I assumed a linear increase from 0.15 to 0.23. The total force for the segment was calculated by taking the average of 0.15 and 0.23 and multiplying it by 0.1, i.e. 0.1*(0.15+0.23)/2. I then took the...

Hello, I am attempting a problem in an older statics textbook an image of which is attached. No matter what I try, I get a solution of between 0.52 and 0.53 metres and was hoping someone could verify if the textbook answer of 0.48m is right or wrong. Thanks Heaps, Scott.