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O-Level Turning Effects of Forces
What the O-Level syllabus expects for Turning Effects of Forces, and how to practise it.
What the syllabus expects
- Describe a force's moment about a pivot as its turning effect and connect it to everyday situations.
- State, for a body that is in equilibrium, the principle of moments.
- Use the principle of moments in unfamiliar situations or problem solving.
- Understand that a body's weight can be treated as acting at one point, its centre of gravity.
- Describe qualitatively how the centre of gravity's position influences an object's stability.
How it's examined
About 8% of the past-paper style questions in Rae's bank for this subject sit in this topic.
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