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ENGG9802: Engineering Mechanics (2019 - Summer Main)
Unit: | ENGG9802: Engineering Mechanics (6 CP) |
Mode: | Normal-Day |
On Offer: | Yes |
Level: | Postgraduate |
Faculty/School: | Faculty of Engineering |
Unit Coordinator/s: |
A/Prof Jabbarzadeh, Ahmad
Dr Cafe, Peter |
Session options: | Summer Main |
Versions for this Unit: | |
Site(s) for this Unit: |
https://elearning.sydney.edu.au |
Campus: | Camperdown/Darlington |
Pre-Requisites: | None. |
Prohibitions: | ENGG5802. |
Brief Handbook Description: | The unit aims to provide students with an understanding of and competence in solving statics and introductory dynamics problems in engineering. Tutorial sessions will help students to improve their group work and problem solving skills, and gain competency in extracting a simplified version of a problem from a complex situation. Emphasis is placed on the ability to work in 3D as well as 2D, including the 2D and 3D visualisation of structures and structural components, and the vectorial 2D and 3D representations of spatial points, forces and moments. Introduction to kinematics and dynamics topics includes position, velocity and acceleration of a point; relative motion, force and acceleration, momentum, collisions and energy methods. |
Assumed Knowledge: | None. |
Department Permission | Department permission is required for enrollment in this session. |
Lecturer/s: |
A/Prof Jabbarzadeh, Ahmad
Dr Cafe, Peter |
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Tutor/s: | to be announced | ||||||||||||||||||||
Timetable: | ENGG9802 Timetable | ||||||||||||||||||||
Time Commitment: |
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T&L Activities: | Tutorial: 2 hour lecture is followed immediately by a 3 hour tutorial on two seperate days each week. Attendance at lectures is compulsory. Attendance at the first 2 hours of tutoials is compulsory. The tutorial problems from the specified text are listed on the documents on the unit website. |
Learning outcomes are the key abilities and knowledge that will be assessed in this unit. They are listed according to the course goal supported by each. See Assessment Tab for details how each outcome is assessed.
Unassigned OutcomesAssessment Methods: |
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Assessment Description: |
There are 6 tutorial quizzes, one conducted each week, on the topics of the previous two tutorials and accompanying lectures. They are closed book with calculators allowed. The best 5 out of 6 are counted for assessment as 50% of the final assessment mark. The final exam covers all topics and contributes 50% of the final assessment mark. |
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Policies & Procedures: | See the policies page of the faculty website at http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/student-policies/ for information regarding university policies and local provisions and procedures within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies. |
Prescribed Text/s: |
Note: Students are expected to have a personal copy of all books listed.
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Online Course Content: | https://elearning.sydney.edu.au |
Note that the "Weeks" referred to in this Schedule are those of the official university semester calendar https://web.timetable.usyd.edu.au/calendar.jsp
Week | Description |
Week 1 | Couple and resultants |
Revision: 2D examples | |
Introduction, Vectors, Newton’s Laws | |
Forces, Moments | |
Week 2 | Moments and Couples in 3D |
Resultants in 3D | |
Revision: 3D Examples | |
3D force systems | |
Week 3 | Equilibrium in 2D |
Plane Trusses: Methods of Joints | |
Equilibrium in 3D | |
Week 4 | Plain Trusses: Method of Sections |
Centre of Mass and Centroids | |
Frames and Machines | |
Space Trusses | |
Week 5 | Centre of Mass and Centroids (cont) |
Beams: Distributed forces for Beams | |
Types of Friction, Dry Friction | |
Flexible Belts | |
Week 6 | Potential Energy and Stability |
Principles of Virtual Work and Equilibrium | |
Revision | |
Week 13 | Revision |
STUVAC (Week 14) | No lectures; No Tutorials |
Exam Period | Assessment Due: Final Exam |
Course Relations
The following is a list of courses which have added this Unit to their structure.
Course | Year(s) Offered |
Master of Professional Engineering (Civil) | 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 |
Master of Professional Engineering (Structural) | 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 |
Course Goals
This unit contributes to the achievement of the following course goals:
Attribute | Practiced | Assessed |
(6) Communication and Inquiry/ Research (Level 1) | No | 0% |
(5) Interdisciplinary, Inclusiveness, Influence (Level 1) | No | 0% |
(4) Design (Level 1) | No | 0% |
(3) Problem Solving and Inventiveness (Level 1) | No | 0% |
(1) Maths/ Science Methods and Tools (Level 1) | No | 0% |
These goals are selected from Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 which defines overall goals for courses where this unit is primarily offered. See Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 for details of the attributes and levels to be developed in the course as a whole. Percentage figures alongside each course goal provide a rough indication of their relative weighting in assessment for this unit. Note that not all goals are necessarily part of assessment. Some may be more about practice activity. See Learning outcomes for details of what is assessed in relation to each goal and Assessment for details of how the outcome is assessed. See Attributes for details of practice provided for each goal.