Statics Fundamentals

This set of equipment covers the needs of students studying forces, moments, beams and more. Students use the storable work panel (included) to construct a range of experiments, which allow you to study a full course in static engineering systems. A full 10-hour workbook is included free of charge in the Learning Centre for this kit.

Learning objectives:

• Forces (mass, force, weight, combining, parallelogram, triangle and polygon
• Centre of gravity
• Units of weight and mass
• Free body diagrams
• Force vectors
• Coplanar forces
• Bow’s notation
• Principles of moments and moment of forces
• Distinguishing between moments and torque
• Equilibrium of forces
• Levers and the term mechanical advantage
• Simply supported beams
• Concentrated and uniform distributed loads
• Different types of pinned supports