Key Stage 4
Meaning
A free body diagram is a type of diagram which all the forces affecting an object using arrows to represent the force vectors.
About Free Body Diagram
- Free body diagrams show the different forces acting on an object.
- The forces are represented by arrows that indication the magnitude of the force with by the length of the arrow and the direction of the force by the direction of the arrow.
- The object is usually drawn in a simplistic way as its shape is not often important to the forces that are acting on the object.
- Free body diagrams include a label which either names the force or states its magnitude.
Examples
References
AQA
- Free body diagrams, page 122, GCSE Physics, Hodder, AQA
- Free body diagrams, page 53, GCSE Physics; The Revision Guide, CGP, AQA
- Free body diagrams, pages 131, 132, GCSE Combined Science Trilogy; Physics, CGP, AQA
- Free body diagrams, pages 151, 152, GCSE Physics; The Complete 9-1 Course for AQA, CGP, AQA
- Free body diagrams, pages 21, GCSE Combined Science Trilogy 2, Hodder, AQA
- Free-body diagram, pages 156, 162, GCSE Physics; Student Book, Collins, AQA
- Free-body force diagrams, page 119, GCSE Physics; Third Edition, Oxford University Press, AQA
Edexcel
- Free body force diagram, page 134, GCSE Physics, Pearson Edexcel
- Free body force diagram, page 376, GCSE Combined Science, Pearson Edexcel
- Free body force diagrams, pages 207-209, GCSE Physics, CGP, Edexcel
OCR
- Free body diagrams, pages 64-65, Gateway GCSE Physics, Oxford, OCR
- Free body force diagrams, page 26, Gateway GCSE Physics; The Revision Guide, CGP, OCR
- Free body forces diagrams, page 163, Gateway GCSE Combined Science; The Revision Guide, CGP, OCR
