Courses Handbook 2010

307529 (v.3) 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
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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