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The 17 pages that link to Free-body diagram, each with the reason it gives.

• Newton's laws of motionRelated: It separates forces on one body before applying the laws.

• ForceRelated: It makes the interacting forces explicit before calculating their net effect.

• Newton's second lawRelated: It helps identify and sum the forces used in the law.

• Ground reaction forceRelated: It makes the surface force explicit alongside gravity and other external forces.

• Equilibrium pointRelated: It makes the forces to be balanced explicit.

• Normal forceRelated: It represents the normal force as an arrow perpendicular to the contact surface.

• Newton's third lawRelated: Separate diagrams reveal that paired forces act on different bodies.

• Static equilibriumRelated: It makes the force and torque balance equations explicit.

• StaticsRelated: It makes the complete set of loads and reactions visible before equilibrium equations are written.

• Mechanical equilibriumRelated: It makes the force balance equations explicit for an equilibrium calculation.

• Static frictionRelated: It makes the direction and required magnitude of static friction explicit.

• Tension (physics)Related: It represents tension as an arrow along the connector, acting on each attached body.

• Contact forceRelated: It represents contact forces as arrows acting at interfaces.

• Net forceRelated: It makes the forces to be summed explicit for a chosen object.

• Resultant forceRelated: It isolates the forces that must be added to find the resultant.

• Applied mechanicsRelated: It makes the loads in a mechanical model explicit before equations are written.

• Newtonian dynamicsRelated: It organizes the forces needed to apply Newton’s laws to a specific body.