| Questions | 5 |
| Topics | Force Lines of Action, Joules, Kinetic Friction, Pascal's Law, Structural Loads |
Collinear forces act along the same line of action, concurrent forces pass through a common point and coplanar forces act in a common plane.
The Joule (J) is the standard unit of energy and has the unit \({kg \times m^2} \over s^2\).
Friction resists movement. Kinetic (also called sliding or dynamic) friction resists movement in a direction opposite to the movement. Because it opposes movement, kinetic friction will eventually bring an object to a stop. An example is a rock that's sliding across ice.
Pascal's law states that a pressure change occurring anywhere in a confined incompressible fluid is transmitted throughout the fluid such that the same change occurs everywhere. For a hydraulic system, this means that a pressure applied to the input of the system will increase the pressure everywhere in the system.
A concentrated load acts on a relatively small area of a structure, a static uniformly distributed load doesn't create specific stress points or vary with time, a dynamic load varies with time or affects a structure that experiences a high degree of movement, an impact load is sudden and for a relatively short duration and a non-uniformly distributed load creates different stresses at different locations on a structure.