Benjamin_harsh said:
Are they connected with a homework question you have been given? - Not a homework.
I am asking only about the item labelled F .
Third diagram is resultant force. Second diagram is equilibrium. first diagram is confusing?
In the third diagram, F does not represent the resultant of F
x and F
y. The F in the first diagram would do that, except that the F arrow should be a bit longer.
You can also describe the first diagram as resolving a force F into x and y components. A force is the resultant of its components.
If the second diagram is supposed to show equilibrium then it is confusing to label them as F, F
x and F
y. They are just any three forces that could be in equilibrium. As drawn, they are not, since the vertical height of F
y is clearly more than the vertical height of F.
If you change F to -F and define F
x and F
y as the x and y components of the force F (not shown) then it will illustrate equilibrium.
Edit: the third diagram does not illustrate anything useful I can think of. It looks like a mistake.
Edit 2: on further thoughts, the third diagram would illustrate F
x being the resultant of F and F
y, but then the notation is extremely confusing.