There is a popular misunderstanding that since solid.
Why you don t fall through the floor.
If the horizontal stresses then become to big the floor breaks.
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The horizontal members have to feed the load from the diagonal members however and this load accumulates as you move away from the load.
The holes in the floor are not large enough to permit passage of the objects.
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Newton s laws control how cars work how water flows how buildings don t fall down and basically how everything around us moves.
We do not fall through the floor because the floor can produce tensions and compressions along the diagonal members and these zigzag from our feet to ends of the beam.
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These laws tell us exactly how things move or sit still like why you don t float out of bed or fall through the floor of your house.
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So next time you walk across the room imagine that your feet and the floor are pushed a tiny distance apart by the strong repulsive forces of the atoms and that s why you don t fall through the floor.
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2 stresses and strains or why you don t fall through the floor 3 cohesion or now strong ought materials to be.
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This kind of break due to bending is much easier to break than by direct tension or compression.
The floor holds them up ie.
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The new science of strong materials or why you don t fall through the floor james edward gordon no preview available 1976.
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