ME 210 Statics of Mechanisms

Credits: 3

This class will cover the following areas: fundamental treatment of forces and force systems; internal and external forces; support reactions; definition of a free-body diagram (FBD); emphasis on development of FBD-drawing skills; moment of a force; force system resultants; vector methods in two and three dimensions; equilibrium analysis of particles and rigid bodies; truss analysis by methods of joints and sections; analysis of simple machines; analysis of friction; centroids of composite areas and volumes; resultants of distributed loads.

Prerequisites: ME 110.
Pre or Corequisites: PHYS 211or PHYS 207.

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