| Semester 1, 2023 Toowoomba On-campus | |
| Units : | 1 |
| School or Department : | School of Engineering |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: ((MAT1502 or MAT1102 or ENM1600) and CIV1501) or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GCNS or METC or MEPR or MENS or GEPR
Overview
Many engineering problems are solved by using equipment with moving parts. To successfully design such equipment requires a fundamental understanding of how objects move and interact with other objects. The course supplies the essential basics to study the advanced content in MEC3403 of static and dynamic balancing, and vibration theory.
A working knowledge of the basic laws of motion and of the concepts of force, energy, momentum, impulse and vibration is fundamental to the study of mechanics and the solution of many engineering problems. In this course these basic concepts are reviewed and a number of techniques are developed to assist in the analysis of the plane motion of particles, bodies, interconnected bodies, mechanisms and geared systems.
Course learning outcomes
The course objectives define the student learning outcomes for a course. On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- apply the Free Body Diagram Method to solve problems involving the forces on particles and rigid bodies, and to determine their resulting linear and curvilinear motions;
- analyse mechanisms and derive the velocities and accelerations of their rigid body components;
- apply the Work Energy method to the solution of problems involving the motions of systems of particles;
- apply Newton's Laws of Motion, Principles of Conservation of Energy and Momentum and Coulomb's Laws of Friction to problems involving the plane motion of particles, bodies, interconnected bodies, and links within mechanisms;
- select the most appropriate technique to solve for a given problem;
- perform kinematics and force analysis of plane mechanisms;
- analyse undamped and damped free vibration of a single degree of freedom system.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Fundamental concepts | 10.00 |
| 2. | Kinematics of a particle | 10.00 |
| 3. | Kinetics of a particle: force and acceleration | 10.00 |
| 4. | Kinetics of a particle: work and energy | 10.00 |
| 5. | Kinetics of a particle: impulse and momentum | 10.00 |
| 6. | Planar kinematics of a rigid body | 10.00 |
| 7. | Planar kinetics of a rigid body: force and acceleration | 10.00 |
| 8. | Planar kinetics of a rigid body: work and energy | 10.00 |
| 9. | Planar kinetics of a rigid body: impulse and momentum | 10.00 |
| 10. | Undamped and Damped Free vibrations with one degree of freedom | 10.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
(SI Units.)
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Problem Solving 1 | No | 20 | 1,2,3 |
| Problem Solving 2 | No | 30 | 4,5,6 |
| Time limited online examinatn | No | 50 | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |