CIEG 305 IN CLASS EXERCISE ON HYDROSTATIC FORCES

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CIEG 305 IN CLASS EXERCISE ON HYDROSTATIC
FORCES
ROCKY Yo Adrian, look at this show on the
Discovery Channel on Dams. Maybe I should become
an Engineer. Maybe I could build one of them.
ADRIAN Rocky, you couldnt even calculate the
forces on that dam.
Help Rocky out by determining the magnitude,
direction and location of the force supplied by
the water to the dam (100 m wide into paper).
MAGNITUDE
DAM
A 2000m2
20m
hc yc 10m
FR 1.96 x 108 N
LOCATION
IxcbL3/12
Ixc66666.7 m4
yR13.3 m