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Engineering Mechanics 2 - MMAN3300
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.mech.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Parerequisite: MATH2019, MMAN1300 Exclusion: MECH2300, MECH3300
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course covers the science of engineering mechanics and its practical applications. Topics include the following: Plane kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies; equations of motion, work and energy, impulse and momentum; Gyroscopic effects; Gear kinematics, involute profile and involute action; Gear trains, epicyclic gears; Static and dynamic balancing; Kinematics and kinetics of mechanisms; Introduction to mechanical vibration; single degree-of-freedom spring-mass-damper systems.

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