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Physics

Free Body Diagram

Quick fact

Engineers use free body diagrams to design everything from bridges to roller coasters, often modeling thousands of interacting forces on a single component.

Why this is interesting

When you look at a book resting on a table, you see only a single object at rest. Yet dozens of invisible interactions—gravity pulling down, the table pushing up—are in perfect balance. How can we untangle all those hidden forces?