Shear Force Quiz 2

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Our shear force quizzes are designed to assess your understanding of the shear force concept and its patterns in beams. These quizzes align with key parts of our lectures on the topic, as presented in our online course.

Each quiz features 4 questions. Carefully answer each one in the provided input fields. Once you are confident in your responses, click the submit button. ChatGPT will then review your answers and offer insightful feedback to help you improve.

Question 1

A beam has been cut at some arbitrary point as shown below.

Is it true that the shear force (V) is considered positive if it is pointing in the positive y-direction?

Question 2

Consider the beam shown below.

The shear force in the beam can be expressed algebraically using how many continuous functions?

Question 3

Consider the following beam.

What is the magnitude of the shear force at the midpoint of segment BC?

Question 4

Consider the following free-body diagram of a simply supported beam.

If we cut the beam at an arbitrary point to the left of the 60 kN load, we can show the shear force at the cut point using a downward arrow (see below).

Using the above diagram, write the shear equation for segment AB.

Specify the limits of x for the shear equation that you just wrote.

Write the shear equation for segment BC.