Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

307529 (v.2) Engineering Mechanics 100


Area:

Faculty of Engineering

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
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2007 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2007 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        
2007 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

 
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