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Hi everyone, I did a search and couldn't find any useful information on frames and machines for statics (unless I missed it for which I apologize if I did) Does anyone have a few steps that they follow when setting up a FBD of a frame/machine. I'm having trouble being able to efficiently set up...

No we were never taught that and aren't expected to know how to apply that. Is there any other way to go about this problem?

Hi all, my professor has hinted at proposing a question of this sort to us for a shear and bending moment diagram. Now while I am comfortable with having [either] a uniformly distributed load or a varying one, I'm not sure how to deal with both. I can't seem to find anything in my textbook to...