Happy Wednesday, It’s already post #7 of the engineering mechanics series. So far we’ve covered the different static systems, static determinacy, types of loads on beams, and how to calculate reaction forces and internal forces. Today and in the next weeks, we’ll look more in detail at specific static systems and use all the knowledge we gained from the first #5 posts to perform hand calculations. Today, we’ll start with the most important static system in structural engineering - the simply...