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3d moments problem

Hi friends. I have a problem with this question:

reallyhard.png

(black line = positive x-axis, grey = positive y-axis, z = positive z-axis)

This is what I did:

cd = 0.4j - 0.2k
|cd| = 0.447

F(ab) = 0.2i + 0.4j - 0.2k
|ab| = 0.489

F(cd) = F(ab) .n(cd)
F(cd) = (F (0.2i + 0.4j - 0.2k) / 0.489) . ((0.4j - 0.2k) / 0.447)
F(cd) = F (0.146j - 0.0365k)

M = r x F

Applying the cross product I get:

F (0.0438i) = 50

Then I have no idea what to do. Is this even wrong, and if so what am I doing wrong?
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Original post by leosco1995
Hi friends. I have a problem with this question:

reallyhard.png

(black line = positive x-axis, grey = positive y-axis, z = positive z-axis)

This is what I did:

cd = 0.4j - 0.2k
|cd| = 0.447

F(ab) = 0.2i + 0.4j - 0.2k
|ab| = 0.489

F(cd) = F(ab) .n(cd)
F(cd) = (F (0.2i + 0.4j - 0.2k) / 0.489) . ((0.4j - 0.2k) / 0.447)
F(cd) = F (0.146j - 0.0365k)

M = r x F

Applying the cross product I get:

F (0.0438i) = 50

Then I have no idea what to do. Is this even wrong, and if so what am I doing wrong?


I give up, I've been at this through the weekend and I'm not sure if what I was doing was right :s-smilie:
Managed to solve it yet? :L

I tried using the shortest distance between the 2 lines to find the lever arm and being at 90 degrees so then once I found the component I then tried to get the angle to the force direction, but to no avail :L
(edited 10 years ago)

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