M1 Course Content
MATHEMATICAL MODELS: Basic models in mechanics and assumptions made.
VECTORS: Magnitude, direction, resultant, applications to displacement, velocity, acceleration and force.
KINEMATICS: Kinematics of a particle moving in a straight line with constant acceleration.
DYNAMICS: Dynamics of a particle moving in a straight line or plane, force, Newton's laws of motion, connected particles, momentum and impulse, conservation of momentum, friction.
STATICS OF A PARTICLE: Forces as vectors, resolution of forces, equilibrium under coplanar forces, weight, normal reaction, tension, thrust, friction.
MOMENTS: Moment of a force.
Course Programme
0915 Coffee
0930 INTRODUCTION AND SESSION I: Models, Vectors, Kinematics
1115 Coffee
1130 SESSION II: Dynamics
1300 Lunch
1345 SESSION III: Statics of a particle, Moments
1515 Tea and depart
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