Support Definition and 370 Threads

Here is the scenario. Picture three people standing at a playground watching the children play. The first is grouchy and sees all the busy activity as stressful noise. The second person is in a good mood and sees the child play as relaxing and fun. The third person is full of anxiety and sees...

Reverend Wright is a blatant racist, has made numerous inflammatory comments, and praises a fascist like Louis Farrakhan. Is this really the type of spiritual advisor a future president of the US should have?

Homework Statement Find the forces (Fa and Fb) need to support the diving board drawn below. Inlcude directions for each force. http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4923/physicsisgayea1.th.jpg Homework Equations Don't knowThe Attempt at a Solution Was absent when we went over this type of...

An artist friend of yours needs help hanging a sculpture from the ceiling. For artistic reasons, she wants to use just two ropes. One will be from vertical, the other . She needs you to determine the smallest diameter rope that can safely support this expensive piece of art. On a visit to the...

Hello the forum; I am brand new here so I beg you indulgence. How do I calculate the amount of weight a pipe will support if used in a cantilever cituation?

What exactly is life support? Is it somthing on the shuttle or in their suites? Is it just somthing to recreat the environment of Earth? Please can some one elaborate?

Homework Statement A hydraulic lift has two connected pistons with cross-sectional areas 5 cm^2 and 550 cm^2. It is filled with oil of density 520 kg/m3. a) What mass must be placed on the small piston to support a car of mass 1500 kg at equal fluid levels? Homework Equations...

Which positions or agendas do you support [U.S.]?

Here is what I have noticed from my experience. There is an unbelievably massive problem in the world. Blindness. Read this, what I think is part of the life experience of the unskilled: People who suffer from blindness are relegated to the superfluous. They struggle to really learn...

Pretty sure I got it right just going to ask you guys to make sure. Homework Statement An elevator with a mass of 1.10e3 accelerates upward at 0.45 m/s squared. What is the force acting on the elevator's support cable? Homework Equations F=ma The Attempt at a Solution The 9.8...

hey To a lot of us it sounds evident that the future is predefined, that we know the future will only be one way, even through we cannot really predict how it would be (infinitely long equations, ect, an infinity of variables). Ok, its logic , but i need to find clear arguments to support that...

Here is a beam support problem that I need help with! Thanks!

A bar 10 ft long carries a weight of 20 lbs, 6 ft from the end. What force must be applied at each end to support the rod. P1 6 | 4 P2 |____________________________________| B...

Is it possible to get a masters fellowship? If I don't get into a PhD program I plan on applying to 2 or 3 financial mathematics masters programs, some of them run up to $40,000-$50,000 for the duration of the program. If there is no way to get a masters fellowship, is there anyway to find a...

Homework Statement Just looking for a general response - calculating required torque when there is a supoprt arm like in the attached doc. If there was no arm ... it's just F*d, but I guess the arm supports some of that force, so less torque is required? Homework Equations The...

Vote Republican! I am paying attention to Senator Ron Paul and I *LOVE* this guy. Everyone should go out and vote for him and get rid of the hacks like Giuliani . I hate Giuliani ...

Can someone help explain the idea behind solving this roller support question. I have the answer, couldn't figure how to solve it. I would greatly appreciate the detail explanation...:rolleyes:

There's solar, wind, fusion, fission, plant oil biofuels, biomass burning, hydroelectricity, tide & wave power, and more. There is much talk of fuels alternative to the old fossil fuels, which do you think are superior?

Sorry for not using the template, but this question I have is not very complicated (or I hope so). I was creating a couple of problems with beams (Statics) and I came up with one where one of the support reactions has a negative value. The beam has 2 supports, one of them restricts all possible...

I just wrote my first blog entry (just a short test) but it seems that Latex does not work. I simply get a message it is generating but no result is ever given. Is Latex not supported in blog entries? :cry: MJ Oh, never mind I just saw that there is already a topic open on this issue...

Please click on the image to make it bigger. http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/5413/pinconnectiontw4.th.jpg At pin connnection G shouldn't there be two support reactions just like the pin connection at A? If the solution in the diagram is correct why is it correct?

Please click on the image to make it larger. http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/2355/staticsqn5.th.jpg I understand the problem here, what I don't see is how to find the support reactions. Since at each joint we have more than two unknowns I have to find the support reactions. I have the...

Tension in support cable. Help! A wrecking ball (weight = 4500 N) is supported by a boom, which may be assumed to be uniform and has a weight of 3610 N. As the drawing shows, a support cable runs from the top of the boom to the tractor. The angle between the support cable and the horizontal is...

I have a project, i don't know if someone has done it, but i just can't conceptualized the whole system..i am to design a tree support system for windstorms, does someone has an idea on how it supposed to look like...im thinking of putting an anchor, like guyed wired on it.. i was thnking that...

Homework Statement A bridge of length 60 m and mass 51800 kg is supported at each end. A truck of mass 45000 kg is located 26 m from the left end. Homework Equations What is the force on the bridge at the left point of support? The Attempt at a Solution I know your supposed to...

A 125-g mass is placed on one pan of a balance, at a point 25 cm from the support of the balance. What is the magnitude of the torque about the support exerted by the mass? 125kg*9.81m/s^2*.25m = 306.56 N*m why is this wrong?

hey every1... I'm really really stuck on this problem and unless i get it and a few others right I am going to fail my engineering statics course :( Any help would be apreciated so much... The Question that goes with that diagram I've attatched is: Determine the bending moment at a...

Me and my teacher have been debating about the concept of distance. While he says that the length of a curve is something that is something that is not abstract, I say that this is false. Distance only applies to lines, the definition of a length of a curve is mearly the limit of the sums of...

I want to create a online multiplayer games with php but I don't know how to let the members know their opponents' move realtime ? Please help me !Thanks

Let m be a measure on the space X. I'm told that if m(X)=1, K is a compact subset of X with m(K)=1, and K has the property that any proper compact subsets of K have measure strictly less than 1, then K is called the support of m. Then I'm asked to show that every compact subset of R is the...

>[00:00:00] Hi, my name is Ma Rowena (11827). How may I help you? >[00:01:03] Jim: Okay, I'm not too sure how to explain this situation... to put it lightly, melted cheese is all over my router. >[00:01:17] Ma Rowena (11827): Okay. >[00:01:38] Jim: Now, It seemed to function quite well until...

Which if any chatity do you support, i have made up my mind to support just one, but which one, they all seem so needy, i do not want to throw my money into a bottomless pit, which one has the minimum (overheads) and payed staff ? does the most good .

Difference between republicans and democrats? Just wanted to know what's your ideas are... Do not say I am a democrat or a republican because your country is democrat or republic. This is a open forum and no one is going to arrest you for saying anything here. Also tell me what comes...

Please HELP! Can 2x4 studs support this weight? Hi All, New to the Forum and have a question. I want to put an aquarium (220Gallon) on a loft in the third floor Condo I will be purchasing. My guess of the total weight of the tank is close to 3000lbs filled. The Tank is 72"Length x 24" Deep x...

What does the, eu provide, what are its advantages, would it be better to have a free trade policy?

I can help if anyone has problems with computer viruses. I once worked at a Microsoft Call center for this sort of thing.

An aluminum tube with an outside diameter of 1,000 in. will be used to support a 10-kip load. If the axial stress in the member must be limited to 30 ksi T or C, determine the wall thickness required for the tube. I used tau=shearing stress/area therefore 30(pie times 1-d)=10 but that is not...

A physicist said that the reason why the chair is able to hold my weight is because of Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle. His reasoning was that when the atoms of my body are in contact with that of the chair, the electrons in the my body push against the electrons in the chair. Thereby forcing...

Alright I am having an argumetn about teh xb0x 360 vs my computer who is better for gamming and more powerful my comp ADAPTER: Universal AC-DC Adapter BATTERY: Li-Ion Battery Pack 14.8V x 4400mAH 4 hours Runtime CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M Processor 760 @ 2.0GHz 533FSB 2MB Cache ~...

As everybody knows, Oslo's local Labour Party is in uproar, because Tom Pape decided to vote against the party line and thereby secured that the new US embassy will be built in the Huseby area in Oslo (as the Americans themselves have wanted). Pape, who has been called disloyal and...

Full Story http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-allsaints7nov07,0,6769876.story?coll=la-home-headlines I found this amusing since Bush OWES his re-election to the INTERVENTION OF CHURCHES.

A wrecking ball (weight = 5910 N) is supported by a boom, which may be assumed to be uniform and has a weight of 2820 N. As the drawing shows, a support cable runs from the top of the boom to the tractor. The angle between the support cable and the horizontal is 32°, and the angle between the...

As long as we have a state, yes. The state can not be 'phased out' it must be overthrown. So until we do that it mine as well be taking care of people. P.S. And the more inefficient it is (if you believe that) the quicker the state will be overthrown. :biggrin...

Do you support the United States' policy to help India's civilian nuclear energy program ? Why, or why not ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4362884.stm

I read this article and pretty much agree 100% with its synopsis. What do you guys think about this? The Troops Don’t Defend Our Freedoms by Jacob G. Hornberger How often do we hear the claim that American troops “defend our freedoms”? The claim is made often by U.S. officials and is echoed...

I'm building a DVR system out of some older componets i have laying around my house. I'm going to be needing a new video card but everything worthy of puting money into is either AGP 2x/4x or AGP 4x/8x. My question iwould an older MoBo with the "old" AGP slots be able to support an AGP 2x/4x...

I previously have supported Bush on the Iraq War. But if this happens http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007112 and Iraq becomes a theocracy as it seems likely, I think I will have to join the anti-war camp. This would mean that we didn't fight for principles of...

A man of mass mm = 95 kg decides to paint his house. To do this, he builds a platform using a uniform beam with a mass of mb = 100 kg and a length of L = 7 meters. The beam is supported by two sawhorses, as shown in the diagram above. If the man stands over the support at point B, calculate...

I really could use help on this one! I got this one wrong on the last test, it was driving me crazy. Spent almost half the time trying to figure it out. Two wires support a beam of length L=16. A box hangs from a wire which is connected a distance of 12 m from the left edge of the beam. The...

This could include changes to the alphabet, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc. - any rule for writing. But only writing; Everything would still be spoken the same way. So for instance, if you wanted to spell 'told' as 'telled', it would still be pronounced as 'told'. What would you...