Lecture 1; Course Outline and General Definitions
Dr. Othman Hassan
Course Outline
Instructor; Dr. Othman Hassan
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Office hours:
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Lectures: Tuesday from 10:00am to 12:00pm and
Wednesday from 8:00 to 10:00am
Tutorials:
Textbook: Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines, George H. Martin.
Waveland Press Inc. 2nd edition 1982
Course Outline
Practical Evaluation;
Midterm1 20/60 End of March
Midterm2 20/60 Beginning of May
Attendance and 20/60 + To Be announced
Projects Bonus
Final 40 To be determined by the Faculty during
June 2014
Course Objectives
The main objective of the course is to present
fundamental principles for kinematic and
kinetic analysis of mechanisms and machines.
Kinematic and dynamic analysis of linkages
and machines is a principal step in the design
process.
Course Topics
Velocities in Mechanisms by Instant Centers and By
Component methods
Velocity and Acceleration Diagrams
Inertia force Analysis
Cams
Gear Trains
Flywheels
Balancing of Rotating and Reciprocating masses
Gyroscopes
1. Introduction
Divisions of Mechanics
Our area of interest
Mechanics
Classical or Newtonian Relativistic Quantum
For bodies with visible For bodies moving
size and speeds less For very small bodies
with speeds higher (the atomic scale)
than the speed of light than the speed of light
Engineering Mechanics
Important Definitions
Momentum, is the multiplication of the velocity of a
body and its mass
Rigid Body, is a body that does not deform under the
effect of forces
Particle, is an object that has mass and no size.
Usually it is a good assumption if the problem under
consideration involves relatively large distances
compared to the size of the body.
Laws of Mechanics
Newton’s first law
Newton’s second law
Newton’s third law
Newton’s law of gravitation
Law of transmissibility of forces, and
Parallelogram law of forces.
Law of Transmissibility of Forces
The state of rest or motion of the rigid body is unaltered if a
force acting on the body is replaced by another force of the
same magnitude and direction but acting anywhere on the body
along the line of action of the replaced force.
Parallelogram Law of Forces
If two forces acting simultaneously on a body at a point are
presented in magnitude and direction by the two adjacent sides
of a parallelogram, their resultant is represented in magnitude
and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram which
passes through the point of intersection of the two sides
representing the forces.
Forces
A force is completely specified if the following four
characteristics are specified;
— Magnitude
— Point of application
— Line of action, and
— Direction
Systems of forces