University of New South Wales
Engineering Mechanics
ENGG1300
Iowa State Course Substitution
Statics Requirement
IE
Course Info
This is the foundational mechanics course for students in Aerospace, Civil, Envirionmental, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Mechatronics, with content as follows: Revision of vectors, resultants and components, moments; The free body diagram; Equilibrium of planar rigid objects; Equilibrium of systems of co-planar multi-force members and planar trusses; Frames and Machines, Springs; Friction; Mass Center, centroids, distributed forces, interval forces in beams; Introduction to 3-dimensional statics; Plane particle kinematics, including curvilinear and relative motion; Particle Kinetics, including equations of motion, work-energy-power, friction, impulse momentum, impact. Kinetics of systems of particles. Introduction to plane kinematics of rigid bodies, types of rigid body motion (translation, and rotation about a fixed axis). Mass moment of inertia, parallel axis theorem, moment of inertia for various shapes, Introduction to plane kinetics of rigid bodies, rigid body in plane motion, equations of motion, work-energy for a rigid body.
Review
- Evaluated Date:
- January 5, 2026
- Evaluated:
- Frank Peters
- Expiration Date:
- January 5, 2031