Target Audience:
This course is designed for second-year students in Mechanic, Civil and Hydraulic Engineering (in the third semester of the LMD program). This module serves as a prerequisite for the subjects: Mechanics of Materials (MMC), Strength of Materials (RDM), and Analytical Mechanics.
Objectives
By the end of this course, students will be able to understand the nature of a problem in solid mechanics, whether it's static, kinematic, or dynamic. They will possess the tools needed to solve these problems within the framework of classical mechanics.
The content of this module is structured into five chapters. After a mathematical review of vectors, the first chapter covers the statics of solids. It introduces fundamental concepts of statics, including point particles, ideal rigid bodies, forces, moments, force systems, constraints, and reactions. It also addresses operations on forces and the equilibrium of solids in the presence of friction.
Chapter two focuses on concepts related to mass, center of mass, moment of inertia, and product of inertia. Their mechanical significance becomes apparent in the study of kinetics and dynamics. Chapter three deals with the kinematics of solid bodies, which considers mechanical motion solely from a geometric standpoint, disregarding the causes of the motion. The fourth chapter is dedicated to kinetics, exploring the relationships between kinematic quantities and mass distribution. This chapter introduces new kinetic quantities such as momentum, angular momentum, dynamic resultant, dynamic moment, and kinetic energy. Lastly, the fifth chapter covers dynamics, designed to study the motion of material bodies in relation to the forces acting on them. The primary objective of this chapter is to examine the general theorems governing dynamics.
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