QE110: Engineering Mechanics
| Course Number : QE110
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| Course Title : Engineering Mech
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| L1-L5
| Fluid pressure: fluids in equilibrium; fluid pressure; pressure variation in constant and variable density media including the atmosphere; measurement of pressure
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| L6-L9
| Fluid static: forces on plane surfaces; forces on curved surfaces; buoyancy; stability of floating bodies
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| L10-L11
| Force systems: Forces and couples; equilibrium of rigid body
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| L12-L14
| Analysis of simple structures: structures and components; loads and supports; internal and external forces; free-body diagrams; statically determinate structures; analysis of trusses;
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| L15-L17
| Beams and shear force and bending moment diagrams; stress and strain; Hook’s law, and deformation of axially loaded members; statically indeterminate problems
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| L18-L19
| Work and energy methods: work due to forces and couples; virtual displacements and virtual work; strain energy and potential energy; energy principles
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| L20-L21
| Inertial properties of plane and three-dimensional objects: first moment and centroid; second moment and moment of inertia; polar moment of inertia; product of inertia; translation and rotation of axes, parallel axis theorem, principal axes and principal moments of inertia; composite bodies
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| L22-L24
| Particle kinematics: position, displacement, velocity and acceleration vectors in rectilinear and non-rectilinear motion; representation in Cartesian, polar and intrinsic co-ordinate systems; application to simple curvilinear motion
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| L25-L28
| Planer rigid-body kinematics: translation and rotation; relative motion; instantaneous centre of rotation; application to simple mechanisms; velocity and acceleration diagrams
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| L29-L31
| Particle kinetics: Newton’s laws of motion; momentum and impulse relationship; work and energy relationship
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| L32-L34
| Linear rigid-body kinetics: equation of motion; D’Alembert’s principle; momentum and impulse relationship; work and energy relationship
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| Laboratory work: 4x3 hour classes
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| Assessment
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| Marks
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| Continuous Assessment
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| 20
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| Assignment
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| 10
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| Course Work
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| 10
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| Written Examinations
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| 80
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| Mid-semester
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| 20
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| End-semester
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| 60
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