This video will show you how to apply the unit load method or virtual work method to determine the slope on a beam.
0:00 What's up?
0:44 Review of Unit Load Method or Virtual Work Method
2:07 Overview of the problem solving process
3:45 "Real" Structural Analysis finding curvature functions
i) support reactions (4:12)
ii) moment and curvature functions (6:15)
15:12 Recap of the overall process
15:50 "Virtual" Structural analysis finding virtual moment functions
i) Applying virtual moment
ii) Determining virtual moment functions (16:30)
21:30 Recap of where we are in the process
22:00 Apply PVW and solve
22:42 Plug and chug
24:28 Magnitude and direction of rotation or slope at C