307529 (v.1) Engineering Mechanics 100

Area:

Department of First Year Engineering Studies

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

3 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 3 Hours Monthly

Syllabus:

Designed for students with TEE Physics or those who have taken Engineering Physics 100 at Curtin. Newton's Laws - forces, equilibrium, moments and resultants, couples and distributed forces - free bodies and free-body diagrams, trusses - analysis of beams - stress and strain, thermal effects, failure - compatibility, superposition - displacement, velocity and acceleration, linear and rotational motion. plane kinematics and kinetics, momentum - work, power, PE. and KE. - hydrostatics, fluid flow, pressure, flow rate, momentum flux, fluid forces and Bernoulli equation.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

030701 Mechanical Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2006	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y
2006	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 2	Y
2006	Pilbara TAFE Karratha	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External