Problem I: Consider a 10 cm x 15 cm x 2.5 m Aracan timber beam. Its specific gravity is 0.65. Compute the following: 1. Weight of the timber in Newtons 2. Length of beam submerged in water 3. Angle theta when the water is 1.8 m above the pivot at point A 4. Depth of water above the center of pivot at point A at which the timber will stand vertically A 0

Problem I: Consider a 10 cm x 15 cm x 2.5 m Aracan timber beam. Its specific gravity is 0.65. Compute the following: 1. Weight of the timber in Newtons 2. Length of beam submerged in water 3. Angle theta when the water is 1.8 m above the pivot at point A 4. Depth of water above the center of pivot at point A at which the timber will stand vertically A 0

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Chapter8: Centroids And Distributed Loads

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