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Courses Handbook 2014

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2014.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2013.

307529 (v.4) Engineering Mechanics 100

Area: Engineering Foundation Year
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Science Laboratory: 3 x 3 Hours Semester
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): Admission into 307808 (v.3) Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 311721 (v.3) Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Commerce or any previous version
OR
Admission into 132210 (v.3) Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic and Communication Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 303763 (v.6) Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 304168 (v.3) Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Extractive Metallurgy) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 307020 (v.2) Bachelor of Engineering (Civil and Construction Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Mining) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 132010 (v.3) Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 131510 (v.4) Bachelor of Science (Physics), Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic and Communication Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 177610 (v.9) Bachelor of Engineering (Mining Engineering) or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Newton's Laws; Forces as vectors, equilibrium of concurrent and non-concurrent forces; Couples and distributed forces. Equilibrium of statistically equivalent systems; Free bodies and free-body diagrams; Analysis of simple frameworks, trusses; Internal actions within a beam using free-body diagrams; Variations in resisting forces along a beam; Relationship between load and response; Axial stress and strain, elasticity; Axial deformation; Shear stress and strain, shear modulus; Deformations in shear; Thermal effects and resulting stress and strain; Principles of compatibility; Concept of stiffness and properties of area and material that influence response; Superposition; Kinematic equations; Linear motion; Projectile motion. Curvilinear and relative motion; Plane kinetics, Newton's second law in n-t coordinates; Linear momentum; Elastic and inelastic collisions. Work, forces and power; Potential and kinetic energy; Elastic energy; Energy conservation; Plane kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies; Rotation about a fixed axis. Hydrostatic pressure; Static fluid forces on simple structures; Analysis of fluid; Momentum flux of all fluid flows. Bernoulli's equation.
Field of Education: 030701 Mechanical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2014 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2014 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2014 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2014 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 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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