PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG VALENZUELA

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Department of Civil Engineering

COURSE SYLLABUS
ES 4: DYNAMICS OF RIGID BODIES

COURSE LEARNING PLAN

Weeks Hours Course Contents Essential Questions

1st
3 Principles of Dynamics 1. What is dynamics?
2. What is kinematics?
3. What is kinetics?
4. What are the principles of dynamics?
2nd 3 Rectilinear Translation 1. What are the concepts of position, displacement, velocity, and acceleration?
2. What is the definition and characteristics of translation?
3. How to represent a particle motion along a straight line graphically?
4. How to analyze a rigid body in motion with constant acceleration?
5. How to analyze a rigid body in motion with variable acceleration?
3rd 4 Kinetics of Rectilinear Translation 1. How to analyze accelerated motion of a particle using the equation of motion?
2. What is dynamic equilibrium?
4th 3 Curvilinear Translation 1. How to analyze the velocity of a rigid body in a curvilinear motion?
2. How to analyze the acceleration of a rigid body in a curvilinear motion?
5th 3 Kinetics of Curvilinear Translation 1. What is a centrifugal inertia force?
2. How to solve problems involving forces acting on vehicles rounding a banked curve?
3. How to investigate central-force motion and apply it to problems in space mechanics?
6th 3 Rotation 1. What are the kinematic equations of rotation?
2. How to analyze a rigid body in a circular motion with constant angular acceleration?
3. How to analyze a rigid body in a circular motion with variable angular acceleration?
7th 4 Kinetics of Rotation 1. How to analyze a rigid body in centroidal rotation?
2. How to analyze a rigid body in non-centroidal rotation?
8th 3 Plane Motion 1. What is plane motion?
2. What are the rotational components of plane motion?
3. How to analyze rolling bodies?
 ES 4: Dynamics of Rigid Bodies (Course Syllabus)

9th 4 MIDTERM
10th 4 Work and Energy 1. What is the principle of work and energy?
2. How to solve problems that involve force, velocity, and displacement?
3. How to analyze problems that involve power and efficiency?
11th 4 Work Energy Equation 1. What is the concept of conservative force?
2. How to apply the theorem of conservation of energy to solve kinetic problems?
12th 3 Impulse and Momentum 1. What is impulse?
2. What is momentum?
3. What is the principle of linear impulse and momentum?
4. What is the conservation of linear momentum?
13th 3 Angular Momentum 1. What is the principle of angular impulse and momentum?
14th 3 Mechanical Vibrations 1. What is vibration?
2. How to analyze body in a simple harmonic motion?
3. What are the equations for simple harmonic motion?
15th 3 Pendulum 1. What is a simple pendulum?
2. What is a compound pendulum?
3. What are the equations used to analyze a pendulum?
16th 3 Undamped Free Vibrations 1. What is undamped free vibration?
2. How to analyze undamped forced vibration using the equation of motion and energy methods?
17th 4 FINAL TERM

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