What is a continuous beam?

Let say you have a beam leaning on 4 rocks

= are beam

0 are rocks

. is the air

# are crate of peanut butter

This is a system with a continuous beam. The peanut butter crate will make the beam bends downwards between rocks 1 and 2 and the beam between rocks 2 and 3 will bend upwards because of the continuity

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