Talk:Linear Algebra/Solving Linear Systems

This page is incredibly confusing. As an example, I'm an engineer with 30 years of work experience, and while I can solve the 2 systems of equations, I have no idea what the text talking about.

In the first example, there appear to be masses balanced on a level. The text immediately below it is talking about torque. Why? What is the connection of torque and forces with the masses in the picture? And regardless of what it's talking about the wording of the paragraph immediately below the pictures is difficult to follow with that long parenthetical. The first sentence also appears to be a sentence fragment.

The picture is also confusing. When I first looked at it, I had no idea what the numbers represented. The 15 and 25 below the images seemed completely disconnected from the masses and distances shown at the top of the image. It would be more clear if they were above the masses like the other numbers.

Since I'm not a physicist and don't understand the text about torque, I have no idea where the value 100 comes from in the first equation, or where the 50 comes from in the second equation. It's not the sum of the 3 distances. It's not the sum of the masses. What is it? These things could all be explained in the text to make it more clear what's going on. 108.185.142.199 (discuss) 06:32, 18 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi I agree it could be expanded, and hopefully it will one day. For what torque is see torque, but for a balance is merely force X distance. Jules  (Mrjulesd) 23:05, 21 March 2021 (UTC)