ENGINEERING MECHANICS (EGR201)

Includes notes on the breakdown of mechanics, practice problems, vectors, forces, SI units, equilibrium, and fundamental concepts and principles of mechanics.

This course provides an introduction to mechanics as applied to engineering problems. Principles of force and moment balance, work, and energy conservation are applied to systems in static equilibrium. The similarity of balance laws applied to mechanical behavior to those used in thermodynamics and electric circuits is introduced. Students are introduced to the concepts of free-body diagrams and equivalent systems of forces, properties of areas and sections, analysis of simple structures, intern...