Tecnológico Nacional de México Campus Ciudad Juárez

Marcos Abraham Rodríguez López

17111651
Machinery Dynamics
Unit 1
Kinetics of a Rigid Body. Work and Energy.
September 24, 2020
Introduction
What I am hoping to learn out of the class of Machinery Dynamics is to understand the
dynamics of a machine and identify how are the forces acting on it, therefore analyze
and solve problems about a machine dynamics’ for example resonance produced from
vibrations.

Body
Moment of inertia: It is used to calculate angular momentum and it shows how rotational
motion changes with changes in the distribution of mass, that is why the formula for
moment of inertia is different for every shape, or distribution of mass. It determines the
torque needed for a certain angular acceleration.

Determine the maximum acceleration possible to move forward without losing traction if
the static friction coefficient between tire and road is 1.3, the car weights 3000 lbs. in its
center of gravity and it is rear wheel drive.
Conclusion
In this first unit I learned about kinetic energy on rigid bodies and how to solve problems
by finding missing values of either forces or acceleration by understanding how they
interact with each other and are in some ways dependent of each other.