Extracted text: (b) Figure 5 shows a timber column and several forces acting on it. As an engineer, you were assigned by your superiors to simplify the forces and replace it by a resultant force as well as specifying where its line of action intersects the column AB measured from point B. 0.5 m B. 500 N 1 m 0.2 m 250 N 30° 1 m 300 N 1 m A Figure 5