Academics / Courses / Course DescriptionsMECH_ENG 202: Mechanics II
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Prerequisites
GEN_ENG 205-4Description
Friction. Kinetics of rigid bodies in planar motion. Equilibrium of rigid bodies. Mass centers and moments of inertia of rigid bodies, dynamics of rigid bodies in planar motion. Kinetics of particles. Moments of inertia of rigid bodies.
Who Takes It
This course is usually taken by undergraduate mechanical engineering students during their sophomore year.
What It's About
This course introduces students to the basic physical laws governing the the interaction of bodies. This course is essential for all future engineers, since all the objects in the world obey these laws, and no machine may be built without their knowledge.
Lectures
This course meets four times per week for 50-minute lectures.
Topics
- Newton's law F=ma, free body diagrams
- Relationship of v and w for two points of one rigid body
- Pure translation; instantaneous centers
- Relationship of a and a for two points of one rigid body
- Relationship between velocities of one point in two frames
- Relationship between accelerations of one point in two frames
- Coriolis acceleration
- Angular momentum, review of moment of inertia
- Euler's second law (M = Ia)
- Rigid body dynamics problems
- Conservation of energy - kinetic, potential
- Conservation of momentum, impulse
- Point mass and rigid body dynamics problems
Textbook
Vector Mechanics for Engineers - Dynamics, by Beer & Johnston, 10th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2012, ISBN 978-0077402327
Assessment/evaluation
Quizzes, Homework, Final Exam
Contact
Professor: Cheng SunEmail: c-sun@northwestern.edu