Online Courses Handbook 2003

11964 (v.3) Engineering Dynamics 134

Area:	Department of Mechanical Engineering
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	11958 (v.3) Mechanical Engineering 131 or any previous version
Particle kinetics, Rectilinear motion under constant and variable acceleration conditions, plane curvilinear motion using rectangular and normal/tangential, relative motion. Work energy and impulse momentum methods. Free-body diagrams, frictional forces, application of Newton's Second Law to plane curvilinear motion using the above co-ordinate systems. Rigid body kinematics. Velocity and acceleration diagrams. Moments of inertia and parallel axis theorem. Rigid body kinetics.