Week

Date

Topic

Text

1

Aug. 25

Cartesian Vectors

2.1,2.4-2.6

Aug. 29

Position and Force Vectors

2.7-2.8

Dot Product, Cross Product

2.9, 4.2

Aug. 31

Equilibrium, 2D Force Equilibrium

3.1-3.3

2

Sep. 1

Labor day (no class)

Sep. 3

3-D Force Equilibrium

3.4

Moment of a Force

4.1,4.3

Sep. 5

Principle of Moments

4.4-4.5

3

Sep. 8

Moment of a Couple

4.6-4.7

Sep. 10

Equivalent System

4.8, 4.10

Rigid-body Equilibrium

5.1-5.2

Sep. 12

Equations of Equilibrium

5.3

4

Sep. 15

Two and three force members               

5.4

Sep. 17

Equilibrium in 3D

5.5-5.6

Trusses, Method of Joints

6.1-6.2

Sep. 19

Zero Force Members

6.3

5

Sep. 22

The Method of Sections

6.4

Sep. 24

Test #1

Test #1 (continued)

Sep. 26

Internal Forces in Members

7.1

6

Sep.29

Dry Friction

8.1-8.2

Oct. 1

Problems related to dry friction

8.2-8.3

Friction Force on Flat Belts

8.5

Oct. 3

Centroids, Center of Gravity

9.1-9.2

7

Oct. 6

Moment of Inertia

10.1-10.5

Oct. 8

Mass Moment of Inertia

10.9

Rectilinear Motion: Continuous

12.1-12.2

Oct. 10

General Curvilinear Motion

12.4-12.5

8

Oct. 13

Motion of a Projectile

12.6

Oct. 15

Planar Motion in Natural Coordinates

12.7

Planar Motion in Cylindrical Coordinates

12.8

Oct. 17

Dependent Motion, Relative Motion

12.9-12.10

9

Oct. 20

Equation of Motion for a Particle

13.1-13.4

Oct. 22

Motion in Curvilinear Coordinates

13.5-13.6

Kinetics of a Particle: work, energy

14.1-14.2

Oct. 24

Energy

14.3

10

Oct. 27

Conservative force, potential energy

14.5

Oct. 29

Test #2

Test #2 (continued)

Oct. 31

Linear Impulse and Momentum

15.1-15.2

11

Nov. 3

Conservation of Linear Momentum

15.3

Nov. 5

Impact

15.4

Rigid Body Motion

16.1-16.2

Nov. 7

Rotation Motion

16.3

12

Nov. 10

Relative-Motion Analysis: Velocity

16.5

Nov. 12

Instantaneous Zero Velocity Center

16.6

Relative-Motion: Acceleration (1)

16.7

Nov. 14

Relative-Motion: Acceleration  (2)

16.7

13

Nov. 17

Moment of Inertia

17.1

Nov. 19

Planar Kinetic Equation of Motion

17.2-3

Rotation About a Fixed Axis

17.4

Nov. 21

Thanksgiving holiday (no class)

14

Nov. 24

General Plane Motion

17.5

Nov. 26

Kinetic Energy of a Rigid Body

18.1-18.3

Principle of Work and Energy

18.4

Nov. 28

Conservation of Energy

18.5

15

Dec. 1

Review

Dec. 3

Test #3

Test #3 (continued)

Dec. 7

Review for final exam

Final Exam

Friday, Dec. 12, 2007, 8:00 AM-10:00AM