Focus: Learn the foundational principles of engineering mechanics.
- Key Points: Understand equivalent force systems, equations of equilibrium, free body diagrams, reactions, and static indeterminacy.
Learning Outcomes: You’ll be able to analyze basic force systems, apply equilibrium conditions, and draw effective free-body diagrams.
Focus: Apply mechanics principles to analyze structural elements.
- Key Points: Explore the differences between trusses, frames, and beams, including assumptions in structural analysis. Learn 2D truss analysis (method of joints, method of sections), types of loading and supports for simple beams, and how to create Shear Force and Bending Moment diagrams, along with their relationships to load.
Learning Outcomes: You’ll gain the skills to analyze 2D trusses, calculate and diagram shear force and bending moment in beams, and understand fundamental structural behavior.
Focus: Delve into the core principles of friction and energy methods.
- Key Points: Study dry friction and its applications in wedges, thrust bearings, belts, screws, and journal bearings, plus rolling resistance. Understand virtual displacement, the principle of virtual work, its applications to machines, mechanical efficiency, work of forces/couples (like springs), potential energy, and equilibrium stability.
Learning Outcomes: You’ll be able to solve problems involving various types of friction, apply the principle of virtual work to analyze mechanical systems, and grasp energy methods in mechanics.
Focus: Master advanced concepts related to the properties of areas and masses.
- Key Points: Cover first and second moments of area, radius of gyration, the parallel axis theorem, product of inertia, rotation of axes, principal moment of inertia, and the moment of inertia for both simple and composite bodies, including mass moment of inertia.
Learning Outcomes: You’ll learn to calculate and interpret moments of inertia for various shapes, understand their application in engineering problems, and effectively use relevant theorems.