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EXPERIMENT NO. 3 Dublin, Niño B.

This document describes an experiment on the equilibrium of concurrent forces using analytical and graphical methods. The experiment uses a force table set, cords, pulleys, weights and other materials to study forces. Data is collected and forces are analyzed using the parallelogram method, polygon method, and analytical component method. The results show good agreement between the graphical and analytical methods. Analytical methods are more accurate than graphical methods which are limited by drawing precision. Studying static equilibrium is important for engineering structures to ensure applied forces balance out.

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EXPERIMENT NO. 3 Dublin, Niño B.

This document describes an experiment on the equilibrium of concurrent forces using analytical and graphical methods. The experiment uses a force table set, cords, pulleys, weights and other materials to study forces. Data is collected and forces are analyzed using the parallelogram method, polygon method, and analytical component method. The results show good agreement between the graphical and analytical methods. Analytical methods are more accurate than graphical methods which are limited by drawing precision. Studying static equilibrium is important for engineering structures to ensure applied forces balance out.

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Experiment No.

3
Equilibrium of Concurrent Forces: Vector Addition

Name: Dublin, Niño Year and Section: BSEE 1-C

I. Objective:
To study the equilibrium of a body under the action of concurrent forces and to
use analytical and graphical methods in the solution of problems in static.

II. Apparatus and Materials:

▪ Force Table set (Complete with centering pin),


▪ Cords
▪ Ring
▪ Pulleys
▪ Weight hangers with slotted weights
▪ Small builder’s level
▪ Protractor
▪ Ruler
▪ Graphing paper

III. Data and Result:


Table 2.
▪ Computations:
o Analytical Methods:
o Component Method
IV. Graphical Methods:

Parallelogram Method

Scale: 1 cm = 50 g
Polygon Method

Scale: 1 cm = 50 g
V. Questions and Answers:

1. List three practical examples from industry in which coplanar concurrent forces in equilibrium are
involved. Why is the study of forces in equilibrium are involved? Why is the study of forces in
equilibrium (static) so important to construction engineering?

- Tomahawk, block, and bridge are the example of industry in which coplanar concurrent
forces in equilibrium are involved. Since there's no net force acting on an object in
equilibrium, at that point from Newton's to begin with law of motion, an object at rest
will remain at rest, and an object in motion will remain in motion. There are a few kinds
of force acts on buildings or other construction such as gravitational force, force makes
by airflow, Earthquake etc. The above specified forces may devastate the developments
in case the strengths being not made equilibrium.

2. By means of a simple sketch show how coplanar concurrent forces are involved in bridge trusses
and roof trusses.
VI. Analysis of Data:

- In this experiment that I was conducted. in every trial there is a similarity between
graphical parallelogram and analytical law cosine/sine. First trial in vector 1 graphical
parallelogram was 250g, 140˚ in analytical was 250g, 140˚. In vector 2 experimental
450 g, 240˚ was the same in graphical and analytical. In resultant was 475 g, 70˚ in
analytical was 475.32 g, 68.8˚. In equilibrant experimental 480g, 25˚ was 475 g, 250˚
and in analytical was 475.32 g, 248.8˚. In table 2 there are three vectors and
graphical but in closed polygon method and analytical by component method. Unlike
in table 1 was only 2 vectors. And the result was the same but different resultant. In it
was 117 g, 352˚ and in analytical component method was 117.50 g, 351.7˚. The last
one is the equilibrant experimental 80 g, 180˚. In graphical polygon method was 117
g, 172˚. In component method was 117.50 g, 171.7˚. The analytical method is more
accurate than the graphical method, which is limited by the precision of the drawing.
These are all the result as you can see the table 1 and 2 above and the computations.

VII. Conclusion:

- Therefore, Analytical strategies are procedures or a strategy how to analyze some problem,
status or a few facts. The two strategies that will be examined in this lesson and utilized all through
the whole unit are the Pythagorean theorem and trigonometric methods. The head-to-tail strategy
employing a scaled vector diagram. The component method is one way to include vectors. The
vectors we'll be including are displacement vectors, but the method is the same with any other
type of vectors, such as speed, acceleration, or constrain vectors. And parallelogram is the
method includes drawing the vector to scale within the demonstrated direction, sketching a
parallelogram around the vector such that the vector is the inclining of the parallelogram, and
determining the magnitude of the components the sides of the parallelogram using the scale. The
methods of adding vectors graphically and analytically. In addition, Static equilibrium may be a
profitable analysis instrument: for the case, in the event that two forces are acting on an object
that's in static equilibrium, which means they include up to zero. In the event that you know the
direction and magnitude of one of the forces, you'll type in an equation to decide the magnitude
and direction of the obscure force.

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