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Fundamentals of Engineering Mechanics

The document introduces engineering mechanics, focusing on the dynamics of rigid bodies and their motion under external forces. It outlines key areas such as statics, dynamics, kinematics, and kinetics, detailing the types of motion and the definitions of displacement, velocity, and acceleration. The document also discusses the relationships between these concepts through various equations and integrations.

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Fundamentals of Engineering Mechanics

The document introduces engineering mechanics, focusing on the dynamics of rigid bodies and their motion under external forces. It outlines key areas such as statics, dynamics, kinematics, and kinetics, detailing the types of motion and the definitions of displacement, velocity, and acceleration. The document also discusses the relationships between these concepts through various equations and integrations.

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CHAPTER 1

DY N A M ICS O F R IG I D BO DIES
INTRODUCTION
ENGINEERING MECHANICS
is a branch of the physical sciences that is concerned with the state of rest or motion
of bodies subjected to the action of forces.

F U N DA M E N TA L A R E A S O F E N G I N E E R I N G M E C H A N I C S
1. Statics is concerned with the 2. Dynamics - study of external effects of
equilibrium of a body that is either at rest forces in a moving body
or moves with constant velocity. - It is a 3. Strength of Materials – deals with
study on effects of external forces on relationship between loads and their
rigid bodies. internal effects on a body

DY N A M I C S
a branch of mechanics that deals with body in motion. Dynamics is divided into
two branches:
KINEMATICS KINETICS
geometry of motion. Used to define the is the branch of mechanics that relates the
motion of a particle of body without force acting on the body to its mass and
consideration of the forces causing the acceleration. It includes external forces to
motion cause a body to deflect or change in
motion.

K I N D S O F M OT I O N R E C T I L I N E A R K I N E M AT I C S
1. Rectilinear Motion The kinematics of a particle is
– particle moves along a straight line. characterized by specifying, at any
2. Curvilinear Motion given instant, the particle’s position,
– particle moves along curved line velocity, and acceleration.

POSITION
The straight-line path of a particle will be defined using a single coordinate axis s,.
The origin O on the path is a fixed point, and from this point the position coordinate s
is used to specify the location of the particle at any given instant.

D I S P L AC E M E N T
The displacement of the particle is
defined as the change in its position.
For example, if the particle moves from
one point to another, the displacement
is
VELOCITY
If we take smaller and smaller
values of ∆𝑡, the magnitude of ∆𝑠
becomes
smaller and smaller. Consequently,
the instantaneous velocity is a
vector defined.

ACCELERATION
The instantaneous acceleration at time t is a vector that is found by taking smaller and
smaller values of ∆𝑡 and corresponding smaller and smaller values of ∆v

Constant Acceleration, a = Ac.


When the acceleration is constant, each of the three kinematic equations a = dv/dt, v =
ds/dt, and Ac ds = v dv can be integrated to obtain formulas that relate Ac, v, s, and t.

Velocity as a Function of Time.


Integrate Ac = dv/dt,assuming that initially v = vo when t = 0.

Position as a Function of Time


Integrate v=ds/dt = vo+ Ac t, assuming that initially s = so when t = 0.

VELOCITY as a Function of position


Either solve for t in Eq. 12-4 and substitute into Eq.12-5,or integrate v dv = a ds, assuming
that initially v = vo at s = so.

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