Intro to STATICS

Newtons Laws
SI systems
Performing reports and tests

Mechanics
o Rigid body mechanics
Statics
Dynamics
o Deformable-body mechanics
Materials
Solid mechanics eg metals, ceramics, polymers
o Fluid mechanics

Statics
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At rest /move at constant velocity

Dynamics, bodies in acceleration

Basic quantities
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Length
Mass
Time
force

Idealisations
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particles
o can be neglected
Rigid Body
o Combination of large num of particles
Concentrated Force
o Effect of loading

Scalers and Vectors

o Vectors have direction
o Vectors need to be sketched with an angle to the horizontal

Unit Vectors
o Vectors I,j,k is used on x,y,z plane respectively
o Resultant vector:
V=Vx I + Vy j + Vz k

Care
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1 slug = 14.59 kg

with SI units and suffixes

Kilo 10^3
Mega 10^6
Milli 10^3
Micro 10^6
Nano 10^9