Statics Intro
- **Problem**: How to deal with loads in real world contexts
- Example: Bridges like the Golden Gate Bridges, Loads on Teeth during chewing, Loads on a Computer Keyboards, car jacks, buildings, power plant pressure vessels, Rockets like Space X, Gear Trains, machines of all kinds
- **Gold**
- Systematic and reliable method for dealing with any loads in any context.
- Statics is the subject that equips people (typically engineers, architects, and such) to deal with loads in the real world
- when the system is in mechanical equilibrium
- mechanical equilibrium = stationary or moving with constant velocity
- **Success Loop** for Statics: Learn and apply **six drivers**.
- Issue: Identify the problem in the real world.
- Model: Create a simplified version of reality
- Loads: Model the loads using forces or moments
- Physics: Build vector equations using equations that follow from Newton's Laws.
- Math: Solve the equations using vector math or sometimes calculus
- Implications: Make a recommendation about the real world issue.
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