Engineering Dynamics CIVL 2204

Course description:

This course covers the fundamentals of Newtonian mechanics, including kinematics, motion relative to moving reference frames, Kinetics and Newtons laws of motion, work and energy, impulse and momentum, 2D and 3D rigid body dynamics. Helps apply the above principles to practical dynamical problems.

Course Aims:

  • Introduce the concepts of dynamics. 
  • Learn the mathematical formulations of dynamics problems.
  • Develop working skills in the dynamic analysis for both particles and rigid bodies.
  • Master some basics of dynamics, including free body diagrams and kinematics, and broadens those basics through the extensive use of vector math to 3-D problems.
  • Migration from 3D vector math to the math of scalers through the use of work-energy principles to solve many dynamic problems.
  • Introduce definitions and terminologies of thermodynamics.
  • Introduce some properties of thermodynamic systems, some of which are pressure, temperature and its scales, heat and work as path dependent functions, zeroth law of thermodynamics, concept of a thermodynamic equilibrium.

Course outcomes:

  • Knowledge of kinematic and kinetic analyses for particles and systems of particles.
  • Knowledge of momentum and energy methods for particles and systems of particles.
  • Knowledge of kinematic and kinetic analyses for rigid bodies.
  • Knowledge of momentum and energy methods for rigid bodies.