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Free Body Diagrams Tutorial

University of Guelph Department of Physics.

http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/fbd/FBD.htm

A tutorial on free body diagrams that includes situations involving gravitation, the normal force, friction, push/pull and tensions. Each situation has Free Body Diagram (FBD) sketches and a detailed analysis. There is also a three level graphic-based FBD self-testing quiz which is elaborate but a little slow. This tutorial is part of the Physics Tutorials at the University of Guelph, Dpearment of Physics.



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