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mark.k
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I have a general question. I just do not understand two concepts:
1. The idea of a couple being a free vector:
If a couple produces a moment around the midpoint of the distance between the two forces that create a couple then how come if we move it to a different point of a body it creates the same effect. Wouldn't it rotate the body a round new point?
2. How can a couple and a force bew resolved into a single resultant force. I have seen questions in a textbooks that have a bunch of forces and couples acting on a body and they ask for the resultant force without a couple. If the couple can be moved to any point and force can not than how come we can find the resultatn force wihtout a couple? As I understand, the moment of a force can not cancel a couple since it is fixed around a point and a couple is not?
Thank you very much for al of you answers. I would really appreciate if someone could explain these two things for me.
1. The idea of a couple being a free vector:
If a couple produces a moment around the midpoint of the distance between the two forces that create a couple then how come if we move it to a different point of a body it creates the same effect. Wouldn't it rotate the body a round new point?
2. How can a couple and a force bew resolved into a single resultant force. I have seen questions in a textbooks that have a bunch of forces and couples acting on a body and they ask for the resultant force without a couple. If the couple can be moved to any point and force can not than how come we can find the resultatn force wihtout a couple? As I understand, the moment of a force can not cancel a couple since it is fixed around a point and a couple is not?
Thank you very much for al of you answers. I would really appreciate if someone could explain these two things for me.