Free Body Diagram — Study Resources & PYQs
Representation of forces and reactions acting on an isolated body.
- Estimated study time: 60 minutes
Study resources
- NPTEL Engineering Mechanics - IIT Madras (Lec 1-2: Introduction) (Article) — Full NPTEL video course by Prof. K. Ramesh, IIT Madras. First two lectures cover rigid body concepts, force, units and system of forces - watch these first.
- Wikipedia - Free Body Diagram (Article) — Clear, illustrated explanation of what a free body diagram is and the step-by-step method to draw one for any rigid body problem.
- Engineering Statics - 5.2 Free-Body Diagrams (Article) — Step-by-step rules for drawing FBDs plus a full table of support reactions (pin, roller, fixed, cable). Almost every numerical starts here, so master this table.
- Engineering Statics - 3.5 3D Particle Equilibrium (FBD in space) (Article) — How to draw and set up free body diagrams for 3D / spatial force systems using direction angles and unit vectors.
- Video search: free body diagram engineering mechanics (Hindi + English) (Video) — Curated video search. Pick any 15-20 min video where the teacher solves 3-4 FBD problems on the board - watching FBDs being drawn is far more useful than reading.
- Review of Static Equilibrium and FBD guidelines - Purdue University (PDF) — Review of Static Equilibrium and FBD guidelines - Purdue University — selected for the syllabus topic Free Body Diagram.
- NPTEL — Engineering Mechanics (Article) — NPTEL reference covering force systems, equilibrium, free-body diagrams, centroids, moments and virtual work.
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- BASICS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING — BMET22 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Engineering Mechanics — BMET11 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Structural Analysis-I — CET6102 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Basic Mechanical Engineering — MET5201 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu