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Mechanics I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 330-0311/02
Abbreviation MECHI
Course title Mechanics I
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mechanics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jaroslav Zapoměl, DrSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Composition and decomposition of forces, force the system on a common point of action of the plane forces, replacing a balance. Moments of forces, couples generally planar force systems, replacement and balance.
2. Centre of gravity: lines, surfaces and solids, Guldin-Papp laws.
3. Degrees of freedom, basic types of constrains, static solution of multibody systems.
4. Straight beams, finding courses of internal forces, truss structures.
5. Passive resistances in technical practice.
6. Kinematics and Dynamics of mass point. Integral laws of dynamics.
7. Kinematics and Dynamics of translation, rotation and general plane motion.
8. Dynamics of mechanisms with constant gear ratio - method of releasing a reduction method.
9. Basic theory of technical vibration.

Literature

Horyl, P.: Engineering Mechanics, VŠB-TUO, Ostrava 2005, ISBN 80-248-0801-3
Riley, William Franklin, Sturges, Leroy D. : Engineering mechanics: Dynamics, John Wiley and Sons, inc., New York, 1993, ISBN 0 - 471 - 51242 -7

Advised literature

Pytel, A., Kiusalaas, J.: Statics, Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1999
Riley, W., Sturges, L.: Dynamics, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 1996