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jhson114
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hello. I need help drawing free body diagram for four links on a chain. The picture looks like this:
| <-thats a rope
8 <-these are links; they should all be connected
8
heres a good picture of a chain:
http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/povray/chain.png
the first link is connected by a rope, and i need to draw FBD for each links.
For the first link, i have Tension force from the rope, Weight force, and Normal force from link two. Is this correct? how would you show all other weights pulling link 1 beyond the link 2? and is it even correct to call the force link two is applying to link 1 a normal force?
help please. thank you
| <-thats a rope
8 <-these are links; they should all be connected
8
heres a good picture of a chain:
http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/povray/chain.png
the first link is connected by a rope, and i need to draw FBD for each links.
For the first link, i have Tension force from the rope, Weight force, and Normal force from link two. Is this correct? how would you show all other weights pulling link 1 beyond the link 2? and is it even correct to call the force link two is applying to link 1 a normal force?
help please. thank you
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