Preparation

• Read sections 3-1
• More info on free body diagrams can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_body_diagram (or your previous strength of materials textbooks)

Concepts

After this lesson you should be able to:

• draw 2D and 3D free body diagrams of a mechanical structures
• find internal forces in loaded components

Upcoming Due Dates

• We will check for 50 designs in your design notebook on Friday, Oct 2 in class
• Homework #1 will be due Monday, October 5