This course treats of the laws governing motions of bodies with applications to conditions most frequently met in engineering practice. The principal topics covered under kinematics are: linear and angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration; rectilinear and curvilinear motion; motion curves; relative motion; motion of rigid bodies; instantaneous center. The principal topics covered under kinetics are: Newton’s laws applied to the motion of a particle; D’Alembert’s principle; motion of the mass-center; translation, rotation and plane motion of a rigid body; work, power, energy, impulse, and momentum; principles of work and energy, principles of impulse and momentum, and their application to special types of motion of rigid bodies.
Texts: Seely and Ensign, “Analytical Mechanics”; Joffe, “Problems in Mechanics”.
Mech 22 Kinematics and Kinetics. Prerequisites: Mech 20, Math 21.
The general aim and content of this course is the same as that of Mechanics 21. Special emphasis is given to topics and problems of interest to the civil engineer. The work-energy method is used extensively in the solution of problems in kinetics.
Texts: Seely and Ensign, “Analytical Mechanics”; Joffe, “Problems in Mechanics”.
Mech 23 Kinematics and Kinetics. Prerequisites: Mech 20, Math 21.
The general aim and content of this course is the same as that of Mech 21. Special emphasis is given to topics and problems of interest to the mechanical engineer. The study of relative motion is extended to include Coriolis’ Law.
Texts: Seely and Ensign, “Analytical Mechanics”; Joffe, “Problems in Mechanics”.
Mech 24 Statics, Kinematics and Kinetics. Prerequisites: Math 21, Phys 3.
It is the aim of this course to acquaint the student of engineering with the fundamental laws, principles, and methods of mechanics, and to develop in him the ability to apply them in the solution of a great variety of problems of practical importance to the engineer. The principal topics included in this course are: