Course overview
This course teaches students how to apply Newtonian physics to analyse relatively simple physical mechanisms. - with some emphasis on commonly encountered engineering applications. It follows on from the Statics course, but considers systems that are not in equilibrium i.e. with velocity and acceleration. Some of the topics covered are pure kinematics (a mathematical description of motion only), while others are kinetic (determine motion in problems involving the concepts of force and energy). The course is restricted to 2-D (planar) mechanisms.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain measurement error, and propagation of error in processed dataExplain basic kinematics concepts - displacement, velocity and acceleration (and their angular counterparts)
- Explain basic dynamics concepts - force, momentum, work and energy
- Explain and be able to apply Newton's laws of motion
- Explain and be able to apply other basic dynamics concepts - the Work-Energy principle, Impulse-Momentum principle and the coefficient of restitution
- Apply all of concepts of linear kinetics to systems in general plane motion (applying Euler's Equation and considering energy of a system in general plane motion, and the work of couples and moments of forces)
- Demonstrate how to solve dynamics problems.
- Appraise given information and determine which concepts apply, and choose an appropriate solution strategy
- Explain basic machine parts such as pulleys and mass-spring systems