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Engineering Mechanics / July 28, 2021

Varignon’s Principle of Moments

Varignon’s Principle of Moments (or Law of Moments) It states that if a number of coplanar forces acting on a particle are in equilibrium, then the algebraic sum of their moments about any point is equal to the moment of their resultant force about the same point.

By · July 28, 2021 · 1 min read

Varignon’s Principle of Moments (or Law of Moments)

It states that if a number of coplanar forces acting on a particle are in equilibrium, then the algebraic sum of their moments about any point is equal to the moment of their resultant force about the same point.