A test of your common sense

Well, common sense doesn't tell one the conventions of engineering diagrams, such as whether the beam merely rests on the triangle or is attached to it. Your subsequent explanation with the fat women and the two mental patients makes the problem clear in a way that your diagram does not, except to specialists.

That is what we needed to know. What was the strange thing on the left side meant to represent? Once you've told us that this strange triangular thing means that "the beam is held by a pin to prevent it from moving horizontally but allow(s) it to rotate" then we can start thinking about the question. Until then, we can't even begin to guess at the answer, 'cos we need to guess at what the triangular thing means.You've conflated two completely different questions. One is a question about physics, the other is a question about what a technical specialist in a particular field means when he draws a triangle and a circle. You can't test people's common sense until you've explained that to them, any more than you can test our common sense about a question phrased in Russian until you've translated the question from Russian into English. Common sense does not provide a right or a wrong answer to the question Когда?

Oh, and my answer.I should say that the greatest curvature of the beam under those forces would be either between A and B or (symmetrically) between C and D. I would expect it to give way where it is most bent.My common sense, garnered over many years of experience, suggests that I don't know and should ask an engineer.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

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What?P.S: Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Your attempt to make your standard lies and nonsense look remotely relevant to the thread is profoundly unconvincing.