How to Take Moments (The Basics)

A tutorial on the basics of taking moments.

[faithrchikoti]

All this while I didn't understand moments, I even went ahead and started trusses but this video has helped me a lot

[IAmJaceMarc]

Taking Structures II this year in an MArch program after taking Structures I nearly 6 years ago, thanks for the refresher!

[thebastard]

9 years later and you are still out here saving engineering students. Godspeed.

[raphael]

You are an absolute legend, I have an engineering exam tomorrow and this has actually helped so much.

[oryzaamarasinghe]

moment was kind of a difficult lesson to me but now it is the most interesting lesson.thank you for making this lesson interesting..

[wistfulgraph]

in the United States, a moment going in counter clockwise is positive. It’s different in other nations.

[mattmontana]

This helped me a lot, thank you. I appreciate it.

[calambuhayjr.josevirgiliog]

Wow this answered my queries <3 That's why I subscribed <3

[CWarfox]

Thanks a lot. Had problems with moments but this gave a very useful basic understanding. I have c1 and m1 tomorrow. My problems im m1 are Moments (now better) and vectors with bearing.

[kuysChillzz]

holy shit, I just got how this works 😭
thank you so much 😭

[prissybabby]

Do I take the force in the opposite direction of where the reading is taken from

[AE-isrj]

I think the sign of the torque is opposite because 10N*7 must be positive since the Z-axis is out of the page and it's considered positive not negative.

[KSITREVS]

I am currently revising for my physics exam (unit 2) This helped quite a bit. The one topic I cant get my head around! Have created any advanced videos for this at all? Thank you TrevorB

[bethanyirvin]

You're awesome. Thank you for taking the time to make this. 

[amna.ssiddiqui]

Thankyou so much! This was really helpful

[consaidercordo]

Hey, dude!
I need to contend you have a great content, but I can't just understand why you consider the counterclockwise moment as a negative one! It must be a positive one, albeit the clockwise is a negative!
You confused me too much!

[bert]

Thank you! I am doing a science fair in school and I need to know how to calculate a moment. This video helped out a lot.

[renuprakash]

just said what is only required. not a single second wasted. thanks buddy.

[kennethperry]

I heard someone talking about taking moments and I didn't know what they were talking about so that's how I landed here. My particular area is biology so I don't get into a whole lot of physics, beyond the basic stuff, so forgive me if this seems like a dumb question but why is the force at R considered a clockwise force since the direction of the force will always be straight up independent of the position of the lever, or is that just a way of saying it's a positive force, which does have an affect on the other forces in the equation?

[Dad-ydzi]

But I did the math and the last problem was supposed to be -14n