ABCD is a squre. forces of magnitudes 1,2,3,P, and Q units act along AB, BC, CD, DA and AC respectively. find the value of P and Q so that the resultant of five forces is a couple
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Coplanar or not, the two conditions for equilibrium are:The sum of all forces must be zeroThe sum of all torques must be zero.
These are forces which act in the same plane (coplanar, not coplanner!) and that their lines of action all meet at a single point.
Collinear forces are concurrent system type of forces, whereas parallel vector forces cannot be concurrent system type of force but they can be coplanar nonconcurrent system type of force
if several COPLANAR FORCES are acting at a point simultaneously such that each one of them can be represented in direction and magnitude by a side of a polygon, taken in order, then the resultant is given by the closing side in the reverse order
If they are not coplanar, you would need at least four forces to get a net force (resultant force) of zero.