INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL

ENGINEERING (MEC106)

INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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 Resultant force
• It is a single force which will replace all the forces and produce
same effect as all the force combined will produce.

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 Resultant of Coplanar Concurrent Forces

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 Parallelogram Law of Forces

• If two forces acting simultaneously

on a particle, be represented in
magnitude and direction by the
two adjacent sides of
parallelogram, their resultant may
be represented in magnitude and
direction by the diagonal of the
parallelogram, which passes
through their point of intersection.

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 Triangle Law of Forces
• It states that if two forces acting on a body are
represented one after another by the sides of
the triangle, their resultant is represented by
the closing side of the triangle taken from first
point to the last point

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COMPOSITION OF TWO FORCE SYSTEM
Let two forces F1 and F2 acting on a particle with angle between
them as θ.
If parallelogram ABCD is drawn as shown in figure b.
According to parallelogram law of forces, AC represents the
resultant R.
Drop Perpendicular CE to AB.

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 Resultant R of F1 and F2 is given by :
R = AC = = --(1)
But AB = F1
BE = BC COSθ = F2 COSθ
CE =BC SINθ = F2 SINθ Put values in Eq1.
R=
R)

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 • R)
R
(As + = 1)
The inclination of the resultant to the direction of the
force F1 is given by α, where

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Q. Two forces of 100 N and 150 N are acting
simultaneously at a point. What is the resultant
of these two forces, if the angle between them
is 45°?

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Q. Two forces act at an angle of 120°. The bigger
force is of 40 N and the resultant is
perpendicular to the smaller one. Find the
smaller force.

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Q. Find the magnitude of the two forces, such
that if they act at right angles, their resultant is
N. But if they Act at 60°,their resultant is 13N.

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 Fy
F A AB/AC = sin θ
F =sin θ
𝜃 Fy
𝜃
Fx Fy = F sin θ
C Fx B
Fx = F cos θ
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 INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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Q. A machine component 1.5 m long and weight
1000 N is supported by two ropes AB and CD as
shown in Figure below. Calculate the tensions T1
and T2 in the ropes AB and CD

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Q. A triangle ABC has its side AB =40 mm along
positive x-axis and side BC =30 mm along
positive y-axis. Three forces of 40 N,50 N and 30
N act along the sides AB,BC and CA respectively.
Determine magnitude of the resultant of such a
system of forces.

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Q. A system of forces are acting at the corners of
a rectangular block as shown in Figure.

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Q. The forces 20 N,30 N,40 N,50 N and 60 N are
acting at one of the angular points of a regular
hexagon, towards the other five angular points,
taken in order. Find the magnitude and direction
of the resultant force.

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