COURSE SCHEDULE

Introduction to statistics
Chapter 1
Introduction, Force on a Particle. Resultant of Two Forces, Vectors, Addition of Vectors, Resultant of Several Concurrent Forces, Resolution of a Force into Components, Rectangular Components of a Force. Unit Vectors.
Addition of Forces by Summing X and Y Components, Equilibrium of a Particle, Newton’s First Law of Motion, Problems Involving the Equilibrium of a Particle. Free-Body Diagrams
Rectangular Components of a Force in Space, Force Defined by Its Magnitude and Two Points on Its Line of Action, Addition of Concurrent Forces in Space, Equilibrium of a Particle in Space
Rigid Bodies: Equivalent System of forces: Introduction, External and Internal Forces, Principle of Transmissibility Equivalent Forces, Vector Product of Two Vectors, Vector Products Expressed in terms of Rectangular components, Moment of a Force about a Point, Varignon’s Theorem, Rectangular Components of theMoment of a Force
Scalar Product of Two Vectors, Mixed triple product of three vectors, Moment of a force about a given axis, example 3.5,
MID TERM EXAM
Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies, Free body diagram, Reactions at support connections for two dimensional structures, Equilibrium of rigid body in two dimensions, Example 4.1 – 4.5
Equilibrium of rigid boss in three dimensions, Reactions at support and connections for a three dimensional structures, Example 4.8, 4.9
Analysis of Truss: Definition, Simple Truss, Example 6.1
Analysis of truss by method of Section, Sample problem 6.2, 6.3
Structures containing multi-force members, Analysis of frame, Sample problem 6.4, 6.5
Analysis of machines sample problem 6.7
Exercise problem 6.123, 6.124
Newton’s second law of motion, linear momentum of a particle. Rate of change of linear momentum