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I appreciate the quick reply. Clamped at one end means a cantilevered beam, so moment/shear are zero at the free end and slope/deflection are zero at the clamped end. I see how my problem is like a beam on a fulcrum, but I don't want to necessarily say that the center deflection is zero. I did...

Consider a beam with an upwards concentrated force applied to its center. This is equilibrated by a distributed downwards force. There are no displacement boundary conditions. I've tried approaching this with simple beam theory, but I can't get a complete answer (shear, moment, slope...