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Final grades for Section 802Engineering Mechanics is that engineering science that relates Forces (push, pull) and Torques (twist) to the motion (deformation, acceleration, velocity) of bodies. Understanding such concepts is essential to those who wish to design efficient engineering components ranging from bridges to a wing strut to a robot arm, to the motherboard of a computer. Statics (EMch 11) is the foundation course on which three stems are constructed: Dynamics (EMch 12) for motion, Strength of Materials (EMch 13) for deformation and fracture criteria for solids, and Fluid Mechanics. Engineering Dynamics is the study of motion. It aims to provide an aspiring engineer with the special insight and analytic skills to be able to a) determine the forces and monents required for known motion, and b) predict resulting motion of a body knowing the resultant force and couple acting on it. The analytical tools, and problem solving skills that will enable you to provide engineering solutions to real problems by building on Statics are arrayed. The course will first consider particles (a body whose size is very small compared to other measurements...for example the Earth is small when compared to the Sun, we are small when compared to the Eiffel Tower) and will move on to ``rigid bodies'' where we will find that the motion of the center of mass is the same as a particle of equal mass, but that the angular orientation of the body will also be of great interest.
TEXT (required): "Engineering Mechanics - Statics" by A. Pytel and J. Kiusalaas
Course Objectives Get the the Equation sheet
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