Weekly Schedule|Quizzes & Exercise|class activity|project|
Week | Topic | Video link |
Week 1 14 – 18 March | Topic 1: General Principle & Force Vectors (9 hours) Introduction to engineering mechanics, fundamental concepts, units of measurement, | week 1-3 |
Week 2 21 – 25 March | Scalar and vectors, Vector operation, Vector addition of forces, Addition of coplanar, Cartesian vectors, Addition of Cartesian vectors, | |
Week 3 28 – 1 April | Position vectors, Force vector along a line, Dot product | |
Week 4 4 – 8 April | Topic 2: Equilibrium of a Particle (6 hours) Condition for equilibrium, Free-body diagram, | week 4-5 |
Week 5 11 – 15 April | Three-Dimensional Force Systems. | |
Week 6 18 – 22 April | Topic 3: Force System Resultants (6 hours) Moment of a force, Cross product, | week 6-7 |
Week 7 25 – 29 April | Moment of a force-vector formulation. | |
Week 8 2 – 6 May | Topic 4: Kinematics of particles (9 hours) Rectilinear kinematics, | |
Week 9 9 – 13 May | Mid-Semester Break | |
Week 10 16 – 20 Mei | Curvilinear motion, | |
Week 11 23 – 27 Mei | Motion of a projectile. | |
Week 12 30 – 3 June | Topic 5: Kinetics of Particles: Force and acceleration (6 hours) Newton’s Law, The equation of motion, | |
Week 13 6 – 10 June | Equation of motion: Rectangular coordinates. | |
Week 14 13 -17 June | Topic 6: Kinetics of a Particle: Work and Energy (3 hours) The work of a force, | |
Week 15 20 – 24 June | principle of work and energy for a system of particles, power and efficiency (3 hours) |