VeeshanVault

Does anyone have any background in statics that could lead me to some sort of knowledge base? I have a friend that is taking the course and having some difficulty with it. I was looking at her work and it just doesn't seem that difficult. What I'm looking for though is some sort of knowledge base so that I can read up and get a good overview on the basic formulas/concepts. I would also like to know if anyone has ever seen any programs out there that would allow you to just put in an experiment with a certain force on a created object with pins, joints and the like wherever you would like to put them. Something that would show you the forces when just given the basic info... a cheating system if you will.

Do you mean statistics or how?

Statics, like forces. Given a certain object I exert 2Kn of force in one direction. Given the degrees, momentum and a few other things you have to figure out what the countering forces are in which directions that equal out the whole structure. I think that makes since : )

Gotcha, the formulas you asked for just made it sound like it might be statistics and i just had a course in that, but forget everything i wrote!

I wrote nothing here, move along *waves hand*

Yeah, I had a course in stats last semester. I had a russian professor. Really nice guy, however he was too smart at time for his own good. how I made it through that class and did as well as I did I will never know.

Well, I assume you tried the Wikipedia page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statics , though at first blush, it doesn't look like it will help (spent all of 30 seconds checking links though, so maybe it will).

The best thing I can offer is finding a good College Physics book that covers it. It's not all that hard, as I recall, but it takes a few repetitions to get the feel for it. Hmm, now that I think of it, there is likely a Schaum's book on that topic. They generally have good walk through examples, etc. I'd give that a look see.

EDIT: they've fancied up the covers since my days as a student: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007032 ... 5&v=glance