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    Ideas for a fun mini-design competition (for an ASME meeting)

    Well there is this one game that we did back in my school. We had students put into groups. Every group was given some masking tape, plastic straws, paper and a ping pong ball. The objective of the game was to design a roller coaster that would cause the ball to reach the ground in the longest...
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    Trouble Determining Moment Arm (aka Lever Arm)

    Hi, Perhaps you could try to divide the forces F2 and F1 in the x and y directions. Such that F2x = F2cos(A2), F2y = F2sin(A2), F1x = F1cos(A1), and F1y = F1sin(A1). Hence, Your free body diagram would look a little like the attached picture. Hope this answers your question!
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