Forces and Loads Around Me and My Community

This is a post about the forces and loads around me and my community, but, let's just start with the simple question "What is a force, and what is a load?"

 Some people may tell you that gravity is a force. No, it's an acceleration. The force that I'm talking about is not some wacko-bozo trick used in the movies, the force that I'm talking about is the one that make buildings buckle, the one that causes bridges to break, the one that is all mighty, all powerful, all. . . . ., aghhhh, I got carried away again. The force that I am talking about is simply one that is known as a load. When there is something heavy on the top of a stick, we may attach a set of guy ropes (yes guy ropes, sometimes, usually in Britain, spelled gye ropes) to keep the stick
from buckling. But usually the stick will buckle (or bow) underneath the first set of guy ropes, so we'll add another set, then another, and another, until, we have a building that buckles and bows no more.

That's one type of load bearing device. Another type, is the shelf support (which isn't the proper name for it by the way). The shelf support holds up a load, per say a shelf with some books on top of it, that is shaped like a pillar bent at a 90° angle perpendicular (˫) to the wall (or pillar) that it is attached to. There are many other types of load bearing devices out there, but, for today's post, those are the only ones that I'll be talking to you about. Until next time.  .   .    .     .

Ooohhhhh, I got you worried there, didn't I?  You are probably thinking something along the lines of "Wait, but sir, you didn't tell us what exactly a force, and what a load is?" Well, if that's what you're thinking, read on, if not, well, read on anyways, or you could go to any of the tabs on my blog, e-mail me with questions or comments, +1 this blog.  .   .

Brought sharply back to reality by real life. I have probably just bored you to death. But, anyhow, a load is a heavy or cumbersome mass that is being carried or is about to be carried. A force on the other-hand,is a strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement. OR: coercion or compulsion, esp. with the use or threat of violence (but that's a different type of force. But the two and only definitions for both of these words are as follows: an influence tending to change the motion of a body or produce motion or stress in a stationary body. A person or thing regarded as exerting power or influence. (once again, that is a different kind of force), and, a heavy or bulky thing that is being carried or is about to be carried, the total number or amount that can be carried in something, esp. a vehicle of a specified type, a weight or source of pressure borne by someone or something, a burden of responsibility, worry, or grief.  .   .

Yeeaaahhhhh, those are other definitions for "load". Mainly the only one you need to know is the first definition, but for me, (and people in my situation), it is the last definition because our mothers and fathers put a load of work on our shoulders.