VCE Together Year 12 Specialist Mathematics: Resultant Forces

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Resultant Forces

Resultant Forces is a part of the VCE Specialist Maths topic Mechanics and subtopics Basics of Newtonian Mechanics. This post looks at how, in a system of forces, the difference between all forces acting, when considering the directions and magnitudes, is the resultant force. This force influences the direction of the motion of the object.

What is a Resultant Force?

The following video will help us to understand what a resultant force is, and the implications for motion.

 

This next video explains how to find the resultant force.

 

Watch this next video to understand resultant forces and free body diagrams. A free body diagram is a drawing of all the forces acting on an object, and are a helpful way to visualise the situation and calculate the resultant force.

 

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