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1. Force
6. Couples
7. Exercise
It may give rise to the internal stresses in the body on which it acts.
A force can be treated as a sliding vector the same magnitude, direction and
line of action.
Rectangular Components
The rectangular components of the moment of a force about the origin O are
equal to the moments of the force about the coordinate axes.
Two parallel, nonlinear forces that are equal in magnitude and opposite in
direction are known as a Couple.
Note: A force has two effects on a rigid body: translation due to the force itself and
rotation due to the moment of the force.
The moment of a couple is the same about any point in the plane of the couple.
Resolution of Couples
Is the resolution of moments of forces.
Engineering Mechanics, Statics, 3rd Edition, Andrew Pytel and Jaan Kiusalaas, 2010.