Recent content by shobin

OK guys. Thanks for that. I work for a company that sells hospital beds and one of our competitors has launched a bed that instead of providing a flat surface for the patient, it curves down from the edge of the bed (hence the 6.5 degree difference between the edge of the bed and the bottom of...

Ok, I'm not a Physics guy so I'm going to tell you my objective in the hope you may be able to suggest how I can calculate something. If you have a person lying on their back on a bed and you turn them 90 degrees so that they now face you (side lying), how do you calculate the force (effort)...

I'm trying to calculate what additional force would be required if a load was to be moved up an inclined plane of 6.5 degrees instead of simply moving it laterally. My question actually relates to "turning" an object up an inclined plane but I really just want to understand the % increase in...