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Understand how to add vectors
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Use a free body diagram to list out all of the forces in each dirrection.
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Determine if a given force, in a given direction, is positive or negative, with respect to your axis choice.
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Use the angles on the FBD to express the components of forces as a magnitude times sine or cosine.
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Be able to identify, from a well scaled FBD, when a system is in equilbrium