Fill ups:
1. What is the principle of moments?
When a number of act on a rigid body and the body is in , then the of the moments in the clockwise direction is the of the moments in the anticlockwise direction.
In other words, at , the of the moments
of all the individual forces about any point is .
of all the individual forces about any point is .
Principle of moments
2. In the illustration given above, the force \(F_1\) produces an at a distance from the . The principle of moments can be given as