ET 2240 - Dynamics

• Ability to analyze kinematics of the three-dimensional particle motion in various coordinate systems: cartesian, natural and cylindrical.
• Ability to use both SEI and English system of units in all mechanical quantities (linear and angular displacement, velocity and acceleration, mass, force, torque, work/energy, power, momentum, mass moment of inertia).
• Understanding of the concepts of displacement, velocity and acceleration as vectors and how to determine them.
• Understanding of the notion of a force as a vector.
• Ability to understand concepts of kinetic, potential and mechanical energies and the concept of a conservative force.
• Understanding of the concepts of power and mechanical efficiency.
• Ability to analyze particle dynamics, including choosing the system, drawing the free-body diagram, and write and solve equations of motion.
• Ability to use principles derived from Newton’s second law, including Work & Energy, and Momentum, for particlaes and rigid bodies.
• Ability to analyze the kinematics of two-dimensional (planar) rigid-body motion, including applying concepts of angular displacement, angular velocity and angular acceleration and drawing Free Body Diagrams.
• Ability to determine mass moment of inertia for some simple body geometries.