GCSE Physics - Resultant Forces & Free Body Diagrams #42

This video covers:
- What a resultant force is
- What free body diagrams are
- How to calculate the resultant force from a free body diagram
- The idea of splitting up the forces into horizontal and vertical components
General info:
- Suitable for all GCSE courses
- See below for whether it is higher or foundation tier for your exam board
- See below for whether it is triple or combined for your exam board
Exam board specific info:
AQA - Free body diagrams are higher tier only
IGCSE Edexcel - You don't need to know this content
Edexcel - Drawing and using free body diagrams is higher tier only
OCR 21st Century - Only need to be able to use scale diagrams if you're higher tier
OCR Gateway - Using free body diagrams is higher tier only
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Hi what to do if you get a number from the vertical and horizontal component both?

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what is the diffrence between resultant force and net force?

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Just wanted to ask what would happen if there was a force for the vertical component and horizontal component after you have subtracted them? What would you have to do with the two values you have? I love your videos and you have helped me out a lot. Keep up the good work.

[@MI-lo2hj]

the plane would go up/down AND go forwards/backwards so the resultant arrow would be in the middle of the 2

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Thanks a bunch to you Sir for making this concept crystal clear! I have a question:"Is equilibrium same as terminal velocity in here since the resultant force is 0?" Could you please 🥺 clarify my doubt,Sir?

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could an object at equilibrium move even if there is no resultant force?

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When subtracting the vertical forces, do you subtract the lift from the weight or the weight from the lift? It wasn’t specified..

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Hi I’m in love with these videos I told my teacher about them and she shows us them every lesson but I don’t get when to know if it’s to the right or to the left ?😅

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The resultant force acts to the right if the arrow pointing right is longer than the one pointing left (or if it’s labelled with a bigger number) If the arrow pointing left has a bigger number then the resultant force acts left.

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3:09 So if the left and right are the same hence the force being zero, does that mean it's at continuous rest (Newton's second law of motion), or is there a uniform motion? [I'm guessing it's at rest]

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What if we had 90,000N on the right and 120,000N on the left what would be our resultant force?

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I think it would be 30,000N to the right. But I might be wrong :)!

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The answer is 30 000 to the left because ,the value for the left is than the right.

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[@maluandpartners]

Thanks for the video. Lot of doubts are cleared by watching it. But Can someone please answer my question? If the plane is in equilibrium what does this mean? Does this mean the plane will take more speed or no speed? Also, if the force of 30000 N is acting on the right what does this signify? Is it something F = m*a and assuming mass as 3000kg and force as 30000N, we get acceleration of 10m/sec2? But what after getting the values? Overall where is resultant force used?

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Hi @Shubham Malu, I'm guessing that if the plane is in equilibrium, then you might want to think about Newton's first law where if the forces are balanced, the plane will either continue at the same speed it was at before, or if it was stationary (which obv it couldn't have been but still) it would remain stationary. Also, still guessing, but if the plane has 30,000N of resultant force acting on it to the right, think of it as the 30,000N is the force that results in the plane moving to the right. Sorry, but I don't really get acceleration myself, but hope this helps. ☺

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