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Engineering Mechanics 1 - MECH1300
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
 
 
Contact: 
Chen,Yung-Cheng
Ford,Robin Arthur Julian
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Corequisite: MATH1131 or MATH1141 Excluded: MECH0330
 
 
Offered: 
Session One
Session Two
 
 
Fee Band: 2
 
 

Description

Vectors, resultants, equilibrium. Systems of co-planar multiforce members. Mass centre, centroids, distributed forces. Friction. Applications to cables, screw threads, clutches etc. Plane particle kinematics: rectilinear, curvilinear and relative motion. Plane particle kinetics: equations of motion, work, energy, power, impulse, momentum, impact.

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