307529 (v.1) Engineering Mechanics 100

Area:

Department of First Year Engineering Studies

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0

Lecture:

3 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 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, P.E. and K.E. - Hydrostatics, Fluid flow, pressure, flow rate, momentum flux, fluid forces, Bernoulli equation.

Unit Outcomes:

On completion of this unit students will have developed skills in - The application of logic, analysis and modelling. Competence in scientific reasoning and its application to engineering mechanics. Discipline in the use of consistent units and dimensional awareness. Understanding of the concept of 'fit for purpose' in engineering and the means by which this precept is assessed.

Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information.

Unit References:

Meriam, J.L. and Kraige, L.G. (1998). Engineering Mechanics. Vol. 1: Statics. 4th Ed. John Wiley and Sons. Meriam, J.L. and Kraige, L.G. (1998). Engineering Mechanics. Vol. 2: Dynamics. 4th Ed. John Wiley and Sons. Gere, J.M. and Timoshenko, S.P. (1987).Mechanics of Materials. 2nd Ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold (International). Beer, F.P. and Johnston Jr., E.R. (1987). Mechanics for Engineers Statics. 4th Ed. McGraw-Hill International. Beer, F.P. (1987). Mechanics for Engineers Dynamics. 4th Ed. McGraw-Hill International. Hall, A.S., Archer, F.E. and Gilbert, R.I. (1999). Engineering Statics. 2nd Ed. University of New South Wales Press Limited.

Unit Texts:

No prescribed texts. The unit content will be supported by a comprehensive set of lecture notes developed by Curtin University.

Unit Assessment Breakdown:

Final Examination 50%, Laboratories 20%, Mid-semester Test 20%, Tutorials 10%. This is by grade/mark assessment.

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Area External	Central External
2004	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2004	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2004	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y
2004	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 2	Y