Each time the ruler balances horizontally we can see from our results that, the anticlockwise moment about the pivot = the clockwise moment about the pivot. This verifies the Principal of Moments.

It is more stable. The weight has a turning effect or moment, which causes the car to topple over or fall back. A double decker bus is stable as it has a: low centre of gravity because of its low ...

The solution of many of the problems concerned with ship stability involves an understanding of the resolution of forces and moments. For this reason a brief examination of the basic principles will ...

It achieves this by developing an internal force system and it is the distribution of these internal forces which ... they consist of a maximum of four basic load types: axial loads, shear loads, ...