PHYSICS FOR SCI.AND ENGR W/WEBASSIGN
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Chapter 7, Problem 13P
The tray dispenser in your cafeteria has broken and is not repairable. The custodian knows that you are good at designing things and asks you to help him build a new dispenser out of spare parts he has on his workbench. The tray dispenser supports a stack of trays on a shelf that is supported by four springs, one at each corner of the shelf. Each tray is rectangular, with dimensions 45.3 cm by 35.6 cm. Each tray is 0.450 cm thick and has a mass of 580 g. The custodian asks you to design a new four-spring dispenser such that when a tray is removed, the dispenser pushes up the remaining stack so that the top tray is at the same position as the just-removed tray was. He has a wide variety of springs that he can use to build the dispenser. Which springs should he use?
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In the assembly shown points B and D are connected by double link members BD and points
C and E are connected by a single link CE.
Each of the three vertical links has an 8x 40-mm uniform rectangular cross section and each
of the four pins has a 16-mm diameter. Member ABC has a 12x 50-mm uniform rectangular
cross section.
For the loading shown, determine
2) The force in link CE (kN)
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(Positive if tension and Negative if compression)
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