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thanks the force of gravity was still acting downward, just down became more towards the right when the forces were rotated for a different vantage point :) ill give this a shot when i write up the code and see if its succesful, and ill check out one of those books for the hinge stuff...

ok, that gave me an idea, hopefully its not too far fetched. i decided to eliminate all forces but those that are directly on the object, because for the animation all that will be necessary to calculate are those forces directly affecting the objects movement. if you take a look at the...

my apologies, i just realized that my diagram was rather misleading, though the forces you listed made things a lot more clear. so i did a new one, that line at the top of the old diagram wasnt supposed to be a lever, just a mass that the spring was attached to. i figured the spring was...

thanks, it did help. i realized my description may have been a bit fuzzy, so here's a diagram i drew up of the system in equilibrium with the mass on it with my original conception of the forces acting on it (the normal force was basically what i added to balance out the other two), and...

hey everybody, i've been having some trouble figuring out the forces involved in a hypothetical set-up I am working on for an interface: an object is attached to the end of a spring which is hanging from a hinge-like joint. when in equilibrium the object and spring hang down and left at an...