A free-body diagram consists of the following elements:
- A representation of the body on which Newton’s laws are applied.
- All the individual external forces acting on the body
- A coordinate system (conveniently chosen)
- accelerations can be included if needed as well.
When a problem involves more than one body, we can always draw a separate free-body diagram for each body ![[Pasted image 20240306135241.png]]
Forces