What's the best way to learn how to draw a free body diagram?

Amr Alaa Verified teacher · 12d ago

You need isolate the object draw just a simple box to represent it and you need to identify the kind of plane the object is acting on an incline plane so you will need to resolve the gravity to parallel and perpendicular components then think if the object is static so some forces on the x axis = 0 and also the sum on the y would = 0 .

Abdelrhman El-Hawary Verified teacher · 12d ago

best way is to draw the figure and draw all the forces acting on it, ex: weight, reaction to a wall/the ground, etc. then normalize all the forces to: (up, down, left, right) or depending on how the figure is, you can just normalize it in any angle as long as all the forces are 90% from each other then add them all and use negative on a direction you set ex: left is -ve, down is -ve with that you can do basic addition/subtractions to get the exact forces with direction