Group Assignment 1
This assignment is designed to assess your critical thinking, problem solving, and communication
skills. You have to apply the knowledge of principles and laws of mechanic used in system of forces,
moments, couples and equilibrium of bodies to the following set of problems. Your answer will be
judged for its clarity, relevance, coherence, logic, depth, and fairness.
Students have to follow below problem-solving methodology which helps you to develop your
problem-solving skill.
Road map: provides some of the general objectives of the problem and develops a strategy for how
the solution will be developed.
Modeling: a real-life problem is idealized by a model i.e. the selection of the laws/ principles
needed to solve the problem
Equations: writing all the equations needed to solve the problem.
Computation: solve the equations.
Problem 4: Three uniform books, each having a weight W and length a, are stacked as
shown. Determine the maximum distance d that the top book can extend out from the
bottom one so the stack does not topple over.
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