COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
COURSE OUTLINE: STATICS AND DYNAMICS (EG231) 2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR
Lecturer: Dr. Musonda Kabaso
Tutor: Dr. Musonda Kabaso
Email:
[email protected]Cel. +260 954929556
Office hours: 08:00 – 17:00, Monday to Friday, may also book a special appointment.
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Delivery Mode: 2 hours of Lectures and Tutorials per week for 27 weeks
Modes of Assessment: Quizzes, Assignments, Three Tests, Final Examination
Final Grade Calculation: Continuous Assessment 40%; Semester Examination 60% (One 3-hour closed book examination)
Textbook: R.C Hibbeler, Engineering Mechanics: Statics, 13thEdition, (2013), Pearson.
R.C Hibbeler, Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics, 13th Edition, (2013), Pearson.
or
Any other book on Engineering Mechanics.
Attendance Policy:
1. Class attendance is mandatory. Missing more than 80% of the classes will result in an automatic grade of “F”.
2. Students must bring their calculators and lecture notes to all lectures (there may be a quiz at any time).
3. All Assignments must be turned in on the exact due date after being assigned.
4. Cheating on the quizzes, assignments and tests will result in a “zero score”, and/or be punished according to the rules of CBU.
5. No make-up quizzes or tests will be given. Re-test may be allowed in exceptional cases (e.g. sickness).
Exit Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this module, students will be able to:
o Explain the concept of static body in Equilibrium, Kinetics and Kinematics motion of a particle.
o Apply the basic principles of statics and dynamics on mechanisms and bodies.
o Analyzesystems and calculate related forces, loads, displacement, velocity and acceleration of a body or mechanism
o Solveproblems involving kinetics of a particle and kinematics of a rigid body
o Determinefriction forces and their influence upon the equilibrium of a system
o Analyze the reactions and pin forces induced in coplanar and space systems using equilibrium equations and free body diagrams
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Duration Main Topic Detailed Subtopics Taught Learning outcomes Assessment
method
Mechanics Understand the basic quantities
Fundamental concepts and idealization of mechanics
Unit measurements and Numerical Explain and understand Newton’s
General calculations laws of motion and gravitation
Principles of Scalar and vectors Express force and position in
Mechanics, Coplanar forces Cartesian vector form and
Hand out
Week 1 Force Cartesian Vectors determine the vector’s magnitude
Vectors and Position vectors and direction
Equilibrium Condition for the Equilibrium of a Solve particle Equilibrium
particle problems
of a Particle
Free body diagram
Three dimensional systems
Scalar formulation Understand the principles of
Cross product moment of force and moment of
Vector formulation couple Tutorials
Force System
Week 2 Principle of moment Reduce a simple distributed questions
Resultant loading to a resultant force acting
Moment of the couple
Reduction of simple distributed loading at a specified location
Conditions for rigid body equilibrium Understand the concept of free
Equilibrium Equations of Equilibrium body diagram for a rigid body
Week 3 of a Rigid Two and Three force members Solve rigid body equilibrium Tutorials
body Constraints and statistical determinacy problems questions
Week 4 Structural Simple trusses Understand how to determine
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The method of joints forces in a member of a truss Tutorial
Zero force members Analyze the forces acting on the questions and
The Method of sections members of a frame and machines solve example in
Space trusses composed of pin-connected chapter 6 of
Frames and Machines members
Analysis Engineering
Mechanics:
Statics, 13th
Edition by
Hibbeler.
Internal Loading developed in structural Understand the method of sections
members Analyze the forces and shape of Tutorial
Shear and moment equations and cables supporting various types of Questions
Internal diagrams loading
Week 5 Relationship between distributed load,
Forces Group
shear and moment
Assignment 1
Cables
Characteristics of dry friction Understand the concept of dry
Problems involving dry friction friction Tutorial
Friction Wedges Understand the concept of rolling Questions and
Frictional forces on screws and flat resistance Hand out
Week 6
belts
Frictional forces on bearings
Rolling resistance
Week 7 Center of Center of gravity, center of mass and Understand how to determine the
gravity and centroid of a body location of the center of gravity Hand out and
centroids Composite bodies and centroid of a body Tutorial
Pappus and Guldinus theorems Explore and understand the Questions
4
General distributed loading pappus and Guldinus theorems
Fluid pressure
Moment of Inertia for area Understand how to determine the
Parallel axis theorem moment of inertia Tutorial
Radius of Gyration Questions
Moment of Composite areas
Week 8
Inertia Product of inertia for an area
Mohr’s circle
Mass moment of area
Definition of work Understand the principle of virtual
Principle of virtual work work Tutorial
System of connected rigid bodies Investigate the type of equilibrium Questions
Virtual Conservative forces or stability of a rigid body Group
Week 9
Work Potential Energy Assignment 2
Potential Energy criterion for criterion
Stability of Equilibrium Configuration
All topics covered in term 1 End of term test TEST
Week 10 TEST 1
Weeks11& Kinematics Rectilinear Kinematics Investigate particle motion along a Tutorial
12 of a particle o Continuous Motion curved path using different Questions
o Erratic Motion coordinate systems. And Quiz
Curvilinear Motion Examine the principle of relative
o Rectangular components motion of two particles using
o Normal and tangential translating axes
component Analyse dependent motion of two
o Cylindrical component particles.
Motion of a Projectile
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Absolute dependent motion analysis
Planar rigid body motion Classify various rigid body planar Tutorial
Planar Translation motions. Questions
Weeks Kinematics Rotation about a fixed axis Investigate rigid-body translation Assignment3
Absolute motion analysis and angular motion about a fixed
13&14 of a rigid
Relative motion analysis axis.
body
Analyse velocity and acceleration
using a rotating frame of reference.
Newton’s Second law of motion Analyse the accelerated motion of Tutorial
Equation of Motion a particle using the equation of Questions
Kinetics of a o System of a particle motion with different coordinate
o Rectangular coordinates systems.
particle:
Week 15 o Normal and tangential Investigate the central force
Force and motion and apply it to solve
coordinates
Acceleration problems in space mechanics.
o Cylindrical coordinates
Central force motion and space
mechanics
Kinetics of a The Work of a force Apply the principle of work and
particle: Principle of work and Energy energyto solve problems involving Tutorial
Power and efficiency force, velocity and displacement. Questions
Work and
Week 16 Conservative forces and potential Understand the concept of
Energy conservative force and solve kinetic
energy
Conservation of Energy problems.
Week 17 Kinetics of a Principle of linear impulse and Understand the conservation of
particle: momentum Linear impulse and momentum. Tutorial
Impulse and Conservation of linear momentum for Analyse the mechanics of impact Questions
system of particles Understand steady fluid streams and
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Impact propulsion with variable mass.
Angular momentum
Principle of angular impulse and
Momentum momentum
Steady flow of a fluid stream
Propulsion with variable mass
Mass moment of inertia Determine the mass moment of inertia
Planar Planar Kinetic Equations of Motion of a body. Hand-out
Kinetics of a Equation of Motion Develop the planar kinetic equations
Week 18 rigid body: o Translation of motion for a symmetric rigid body.
Force and o Rotation about a fixed axis
Acceleration o General Plane Motion
Planar Kinetic Energy Develop formulations for the kinetic
kinetics of a The Work of a Force energy of a body. Tutorial
The Work of a Couple Moment Apply the principle of work and questions
Week 19 rigid body:
Principle of Work and Energy energy to solve rigid body planar
Work and kinetic problems that involve force,
Conservation of Energy
Energy velocity and displacement.
All topics covered in term two End of term test TEST
Week 20 TEST 2
Planar Linear and Angular Momentum Develop formulations for the linear
Kinetics of a Principle of Impulse and Momentum and angular momentum of a body Tutorial
Weeks Conservation of Momentum Understand the application of the Questions + Hand
rigid body:
21&22 Eccentric Impact conservation of momentum out
Impulse and
Analyse the mechanics of eccentric
Momentum impact.
Weeks Three Rotation about a fixed point Analyse the kinematics of a body
23&24 The Time Derivative of a Vector subjected to rotation about a fixed Handout + Quiz
dimensional
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Measured from either a Fixed or point.
Kinematics translating-rotating system Analyse a relative motion of a rigid
General Motion body using translating and rotating
of a rigid
Relative-Motion Analysis Using axes.
body
Translating and Rotating Axes
Moments and Products of Inertia Find the moment of inertia and
Angular Momentum product of inertia of a body about Tutorial
Kinetic Energy various axes. Questions
Three Equations of Motion Apply the principle of work and
Weeks Dimensional Gyroscopic Motion energy and linear and angular impulse
Torque-Free Motion and momentum to a rigid body having
25&26 Kinetics of a
three dimensional motion.
Rigid body Develop the equations of motion in
three dimensions
Study gyroscopic and torque-free
motion.
Undamped Free vibrations Understand vibration of a rigid body.
Energy Methods Analyse undamped forced vibrations Hand out
Weeks Undamped forced vibration and viscous damped forced vibration.
Vibration
27&28 Viscous damped free vibration
Viscous damped forced vibration
Week 29 Revision Selected topics
Week 30 TEST 3 All topics covered in term three End of term test TEST
